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EasySpeech2Text has the advantage of high accuracy and a simple Windows client, but there are some important notes here:
Caveats
- Requires signing into a Google service and sends your data to that service (Google TTS), meaning the data is not procesed locally. As such, you probably shouldn't try to process speech discussing sensitive matters like legal memos, medical data, or customer financials.
- As all functions (including text to speech) of the program require a Google key, the program useless without an Internet connection and Google services. The program is essentially just a front-end and really would make more sense as a website.
- It's limited to 500 words or 5 minutes of audio, good for transcribing short, personal notes or brief meetings.
Text to speech
The other major feature of the program is it's text-to-speech functionality with voices that are not the standard Microsoft David, Zira, etc. voices. This is also nice and might make the program worth trying out.
https://www.easyspeech2text.com/
https://www.softpedia.com/get/Office-to ... Text.shtml
Steps: Install, copy files to another directory, uninstall, launch EasySpeechtoTextConverter.exe
Status: Portable, not stealth. Writes config file to the local folder but creates an empty folder in C:\Users\USERNAME\AppData\Roaming\EasySpeech2Text. Note that this is an incomplete test, as I didn't get the Google key (and without it the program is pointless).
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Related: SpeechTexter
