Speech recognition

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

LaMachine webservices

There are several speech recognition web services at Radboud University

Speech Recognition for Belgian Dutch

Since April 2022, there is a new ASR engine available, specifically suited for speech recognition for Belgian Dutch. It is running at KU Leuven.

• Online webservice
• Scientific publication about speech recognition engine

HENSOLDT ANALYTICS Speech-to-text for Dutch

The European Language Grid hosts this speech recognition service with demo at https://live.european-language-grid.eu/catalogue/tool-service/20900

Punctuation Insertion

AS ASR output often consists of streams of words, you may want to automatically insert punctuation.

• HuggingFace model
• Python script that accepts txt file as input and returns punctuated txt as output

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

Microsoft Transcriber

• Website in Dutch