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What are my options for Mandarin and Cantonese speech recognition software?

April 26, 2017Cantonese Mandarin Options Software speech recognition

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What are my options for Mandarin and Cantonese speech recognition software?

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Cnet is a great site for software downloads and reviews. I went to CNet and searched the downloads section for “Chinese speech recognition” and found this: VoiceInsert ActiveX SDK 3.3 from United Research Labs link here for Cnet’s download page It claims to offer recognition of 60,000 words (English/Chinese) dictation; it’s free to try but $399 to buy. The previous version (2.5) was fairly highly rated on the site, but this version isn’t yet rated. The nice thing about downloading from CNet is that it’s tested spyware free. I followed the link to the company’s web site, and interestingly, they offer a .wav to text product for only $39 here, so if you’re willing to record speech rather than do it live, you could save some serious money. I also searched on the Microsoft Office site using the terms “speech reco