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A tool that claims to guess your native language by analyzing your English accent in less than 30 seconds.

The Accent Oracle

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Whisper.php is a PHP wrapper for whisper.cpp, a C/C++ port of OpenAI's Whisper model, created by Kyrian Obikwelu. Recently released in version 1.0.0, it facilitates fully local and API-free transcription with features like high and low-level APIs, model auto-downloading, support for various audio formats, and multiple output formats. It requires the FFI extension in PHP and relies on platform-specific shared libraries, downloaded automatically during the first initialization. Whisper.php currently supports Linux and macOS, with Windows support in development.

Automatic speech recognition and transcription

Daily Dose of Data Science | Avi Chawla | Substack

This post guides readers through the process of building a real-time AI voice bot using AssemblyAI for transcription, OpenAI for generating responses, and ElevenLabs for speech generation. It includes prerequisites, implementation steps, and methods for completing the application. Additionally, it highlights the performance improvements in AssemblyAI's latest speech-to-text model, Universal-2, compared to its predecessor.

[Hands-on] Building a Real-Time AI Voice Bot

Speech recognition is a technology that enables computers to interpret and transcribe spoken language into text or commands. It involves converting audio signals into digital data, analyzing and processing speech patterns, and generating textual representations using machine learning and natural language processing algorithms. Readers can explore speech recognition techniques, models, and applications in various domains, such as virtual assistants, voice-enabled interfaces, and transcription services, understanding its capabilities and limitations in real-world scenarios.

Best of Speech Recognition — December 2024