{"id":8209,"date":"2020-01-24T15:46:59","date_gmt":"2020-01-24T23:46:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/?p=8209"},"modified":"2020-01-24T15:46:59","modified_gmt":"2020-01-24T23:46:59","slug":"speech-to-text-help","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/2020\/01\/24\/speech-to-text-help\/","title":{"rendered":"Speech-to-Text Help?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"\" data-block=\"true\" data-editor=\"1e6fl\" data-offset-key=\"71ljv-0-0\">\n<div class=\"_1mf _1mj\" data-offset-key=\"71ljv-0-0\">\n<p>I have good speech-to-text software and a very good noise-cancelling microphone. How do I tell the software, &#8220;Please only transcribe text from me, the loudest voice, and not anyone else in the room.&#8221; All the software is so eager to transcribe everything, it is useless unless I (or my students) am in a quiet room.<\/p>\n<p>Details: I&#8217;ve got Read&amp;Write for Google, and Dragon Naturally Speaking and neither are any help. I&#8217;ve contacted Nuance (the Dragon people) and they were less than useless, redirecting me to different business units. I contacted The Read&amp;Write people were no help either. I&#8217;ve googled my fingers off and come up with very little. Maybe &#8220;noise gate&#8221; software could mute the microphone below a threshold volume.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m trying to make this speech-to-text system work for some of my occupational therapy students who have great ideas but can&#8217;t type or handwrite.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have good speech-to-text software and a very good noise-cancelling microphone. How do I tell the software, &#8220;Please only transcribe text from me, the loudest voice, and not anyone else in the room.&#8221; All the software is so eager to transcribe everything, it is useless unless I (or my students) am in a quiet room. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8209","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8209","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8209"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8209\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8209"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8209"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8209"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}