List of speech recognition software

Windows

Windows built-in speech recognition

The Windows Speech Recognition by Microsoft is the speech recognition system that comes built into Windows Vista, Windows 7, and Windows 8. Windows Vista, Windows 7, and Windows 8 include version 8.0 of the Microsoft speech recognition engine. Speech Recognition is available only in English, French, Spanish, German, Japanese, Simplified Chinese, and Traditional Chinese and only in the corresponding version of Windows. That means that you can not use the French speech recognition engine if you use an English version of Windows. 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 found in Windows 10.

Add-ons for Windows 7 speech recognition

• VoiceAttack - is used primarily by the gaming community to allow hands-free keyboard and mouse input in Windows 8, Windows 7, Windows Vista and Windows XP. Its popularity lies mainly in its ease of use and extended feature set, which includes the ability to create multi-threaded macros.^[4]
• VAC - Voice Activated Commands is a feature rich speech recognition solution for games. It works with Windows 8, Windows 7, Windows Vista and Windows XP.
• 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.
• WSRToolkit – adds dictionaries, macros and other features similar to Dragon
• www.trigramtech.com – adds medical vocabularies(language models) for medical users. Can be licensed for individuals, groups or OEM integration into speech applications using Windows Speech.
• Vocola – a macro language

Windows 7/8/10 third-party speech recognition

• Auditory Sciences^[5]—transcription software for captioning whatever someone says.
• Braina - Dictate into third party software and websites.^[6]
• Dragon NaturallySpeaking from Nuance Communications – Successor to the older DragonDictate product. Focus on dictation. 64-bit Windows support since version 10.1.
• Freesr Speech Recognition Software – Create voice interfaces for any application, window in an application, or website/webpage. Works with Windows Speech Recognition or as add-on to NaturallySpeaking.
• SpeechGear Interact - combines speech recognition with language translation.^[7]
• Sonic Extractor from Digital Syphon – Supports 22 languages. Focus on broadcasting and telephony.
• SpeechMagic – Nuance Communications acquired Philips owned. Medical industry focus according to Frost & Sullivan. Standalone or embedded.^[8][9]
• Tazti - Create speech command profiles to play PC games and control applications - programs. Create speech commands to open files, folders, webpages, applications. Windows 7, Windows 8 and Windows 8.1 versions.^[10]
• VoxCommando – Voice command utility for Windows Vista or later. It interfaces with various programs and devices to allow control of multimedia, communication, and home automation.
• Vestec Inc. - Specializing in Natural Language Understanding and Speech Recognition solutions. ASR, NLU and TTS engines support 17 languages in server, embedded (on low cost chip) or cloud based environments.

Windows XP or 2000 only

• e-Speaking – software for Windows XP that facilitates use of the Microsoft Speech API by adding ability to create commands to perform custom actions.
• 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.
• Vestec Inc. - Specializing in Natural Language Understanding and Speech Recognition solutions. ASR, NLU and TTS engines support 17 languages in server, embedded (on low cost chip) or cloud based environments.

Built-in software

• Microsoft Kinect includes built-in software which allow speech-recognition of commands.
• Older generation of Nokia phones like Nokia N Series ( before using Windows 7 mobile technology) used speech-recognition with family names from contact list and other 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 IVR/Interactive Voice response systems:

• AT&T Watson
• CSLU Toolkit
• Convergys Interactive Voice Portal IVR
• Genesys^[11]
• HTK — copyrighted by Microsoft, but altering the software for the Licensee's internal use is allowed.
• Freesr Speech Recognition Software
• Verbio ASR & TTS
• LumenVox ASR
• MIRSK ASR
• Telisma ASR
• Nuance Recognizer ASR
• Rubidium Ltd. ASR
• Proteus Conversational Interface
• Simmortel Voice
• Tellme Networks (acquired by Microsoft)
• Parlance nameConnector
• Verbyx Inc
• Vestec Inc

Unix-like x86 and x86_64 speech transcription software

• Janus Recognition Toolkit (JRTk)^[12][13]
• Vocapia Research's VoxSigma speech-to-text software suite^[14]

Discontinued software

• Game Commander 2 by Mindmaker. Gaming oriented voice recognition. Voice commands can be assigned to issue keystrokes and key combinations.
• IBM ViaVoice – Embedded version still maintained by IBM.^[15] No longer supported for versions above Windows Vista.^[16] Untested above Mac OS X 10.4 or on Macintoshes with an Intel chipset.^[17]
• 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

• Speech recognition software for Linux
• Speech recognition
• Transcription (software)

References

1. ↑ "PowerSecretary Announcement". 
2. ↑ https://dvcs.w3.org/hg/speech-api/raw-file/tip/speechapi.html
3. ↑ http://www.hello-indigo.com/terms-of-use/
4. ↑ http://www.voiceattack.com
5. ↑ http://www.massmatch.org/aboutus/listserv/2010/2010-03-31.html
6. ↑ Braina Speech Recognition Software
7. ↑ http://www.techradar.com/news/software/business-software/Speech-recognition-software-top-six-on-the-market/articleshow/44842011.cms
8. ↑
9. ↑ Philips SpeechMagic named European Technology Leader by Frost & Sullivan
10. ↑ O'Neill, Mark (2013-11-06). "Control your PC with these 5 speech recognition programs". PC World. Retrieved 2013-12-30. 
11. ↑ "Interactive Voice Response". Genesys. 
12. ↑ http://isl.ira.uka.de/downloads/asru_hagen.ps
13. ↑ http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpls/abs_all.jsp?arnumber=599557
14. ↑ http://www.vocapia.com/voxsigma-speech-to-text.html
15. ↑ http://www-01.ibm.com/software/pervasive/embedded_viavoice/
16. ↑ http://nuance.custhelp.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/5775/p/31/c/980/r_id/100023
17. ↑ http://nuance.custhelp.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/4987/related/1/p/31/c/980/r_id/100023