List of speech recognition software

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Speech recognition software is available for many computing platforms, operating systems, use models, and software licenses. Here is a listing of such, grouped in various useful ways.

Acoustic models and speech corpus (compilation)[]

The following list presents notable speech recognition software engines with a brief synopsis of characteristics.

Application name Description Open-source License Operating system Programming language Supported language, note Offline or online
CMU Sphinx HMM Yes BSD style Cross-platform Java English, German, French, Mandarin, Russian Offline
HTK HMM neural net No HTK specific Cross-platform C English; version 3.5 released December 2015
Julius HMM trigrams Yes BSD style, non-commercial Cross-platform C Japanese, English; [2] Offline
Kaldi Neural net Yes Apache Cross-platform C++ English
RWTH ASR RWTH Aachen University No RWTH ASR, non-commercial use only Linux, macOS C++ English

Macintosh[]

Application name Description Open-source License Price Note
macOS No Proprietary
Dragon for Mac (discontinued 2018) macOS; by Nuance No Proprietary
Dragon Dictate (discontinued) macOS; by Nuance No Proprietary
MacSpeech Scribe (discontinued) Transcription from recorded text; acquired by Nuance
iListen (discontinued) PowerPC Macintosh; discontinued by MacSpeech; acquired by Nuance
Speakable items Included with macOS
ViaVoice (discontinued) IBM Product; acquired by Nuance
Voice Navigator Original GUI voice control; 1989

Cross-platform web apps based on Chrome[]

The following list presents notable speech recognition software that operate in a Chrome browser as web apps. They make use of HTML5 Web-Speech-API.[1]

Application name Description Open-source License Price Note
Speechmatics[2] Cloud based and on-premise automatic speech recognition No Proprietary From £0.06 per minute of audio

Mobile devices and smartphones[]

Many mobile phone handsets, including feature phones and smartphones such as iPhones and BlackBerrys, have basic dial-by-voice features built in. Many third-party apps have implemented natural-language speech recognition support, including:

Application name Description Open-source License Price Note
Assistant.ai Assistant for Android, iOS and Windows Phone No Proprietary, freeware Free Discontinued
Dragon Dictation No Proprietary, freeware Free
Google Now Android voice search No Proprietary, freeware Free
Google Voice Search No Proprietary, freeware Free
Microsoft Cortana Microsoft voice search No Proprietary, freeware Free
Siri Personal Assistant Apple's virtual personal assistant No Proprietary, freeware Free
Alexa – Amazon Echo Amazon's personal assistant No Proprietary
SILVIA Android and iOS No
Vlingo

Windows[]

Windows built-in speech recognition[]

The Windows Speech Recognition version 8.0 by Microsoft comes built into Windows Vista, Windows 7, Windows 8 and Windows 10. Speech Recognition is available only in English, French, Spanish, German, Japanese, Simplified Chinese, and Traditional Chinese and only in the corresponding version of Windows; meaning you cannot use the speech recognition engine in one language if you use a version of Windows in another language. Windows 7 Ultimate and Windows 8 Pro allow you to change the system language, and therefore change which speech engine is available. Windows Speech Recognition evolved into Cortana (software), a personal assistant included in Windows 10.

Add-ons for Windows 7 speech recognition[]

  • Voice Finger – software for Windows Vista and Windows 7 that improves the Windows speech recognition system by adding several extensions to accelerate and improve the mouse and keyboard control.

Windows 7, 8, 10 third-party speech recognition[]

Windows XP or 2000 only[]

  • Microsoft Speech API – Speech recognition functionality included as part of Microsoft Office and on Tablet PCs running Microsoft Windows XP Tablet PC Edition. It can also be downloaded as part of the Speech SDK 5.1 for Windows applications, but since that is aimed at developers building speech applications, the pure SDK form lacks any user interface, and thus is unsuitable for end users.

Built-in software[]

  • Microsoft Kinect includes built-in software which allows speech recognition of commands.
  • Older generations of Nokia phones like Nokia N Series (before using Windows 7 mobile technology) used speech-recognition with family names from contact list and a few commands.
  • Siri, originally implemented in the iPhone 4S, Apple's personal assistant for iOS, which uses technology from Nuance Communications.
  • Cortana (software), Microsoft's personal assistant built into Windows Phone and Windows 10.

Interactive voice response[]

The following are interactive voice response (IVR) systems:

Unix-like x86 and x86-64 speech transcription software[]

Discontinued software[]

  • IBM VoiceType (formerly IBM Personal Dictation System)
  • IBM ViaVoice – Embedded version still maintained by IBM.[14] No longer supported for versions above Windows Vista.[15] Untested above macOS 10.4 or on Macintoshes with an Intel chipset.[16]
  • Quack.com; acquired by AOL; the name has now been reused for an iPad search app.
  • SpeechWorks from Nuance Communications.
  • Yap Speech Cloud – Speech-to-text platform acquired by Amazon.com.

See also[]

References[]

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