Speech recognition
This page contains information on Dutch speech recognition systems.
Online services
BAS Web Services
The BAS Web Services are a rich set of tools for speech sciences and technology. Tools include:
- Automated speech recognition, including several models for Dutch
- Anonymizer
- Audio segmentation tool on the basis of transcripts
- Speaker diarisation
- Voice activity detection
- Webinterface (requires CLARIN login)
LaMachine webservices
There are several speech recognition web services at Radboud University
Speech Recognition for Belgian Dutch: NeLF
API and browser access to a state-of-the-art speech recognition system for Belgian Dutch, including dialect speech recognition, developed by KU Leuven and UGent.
Requires a login which can be requested, but you have to await manual approval.
HENSOLDT ANALYTICS Speech-to-text for Dutch (demo)
The European Language Grid hosts this speech recognition service with demo at https://live.european-language-grid.eu/catalogue/tool-service/23090/try%20out/
Microsoft Transcriber
- in Word 365
- Website in Dutch
To install
noScribe
- AI-based software that transcribes interviews for qualitative social research or journalistic use
- free and open source (GPL-3.0)
- runs completely local on your computer
- can distinguish different speakers and understands around 60 languages
- includes a nice editor to review, verify and correct the resulting transcript
- standing on the shoulders of giants: Whisper from OpenAI, faster-whisper by Guillaume Klein and pyannote from Hervé Bredin
- Github page
Whisper model from OpenAI
ASR for multiple languages, including Dutch is available from Whisper. Full model download is possible.
- Webpage
- Github page
- YouTube video explaining how to install whisper on your windows machine
Punctuation Insertion
AS ASR output often consists of streams of words, you may want to automatically insert punctuation.