Is there voice recognition software that will translate German to Enlish as written text on the computer?

I have to tranlate hundreds of pages of German letters into english and would like help in automating the process. Asked by Justme 61 months ago Similar questions: voice recognition software translate German Enlish written text computer Computers > Software.

Similar questions: voice recognition software translate German Enlish written text computer.

No. You’re looking at what are right now considered two separate steps: getting text into a computer (either through OCR or speech-to-text), and translating text in a computer from one language to another. There are systems that will translate speech in one language to another, for Pocket PC, but they are basically a very limited phrase book and would not be able to do what you want.

First, OCR (optical character recognition) is generally more accurate than speech recognition; are the letters typewritten or handwritten? Second, the state-of-the-art translation systems require large server farms of beefy machines. Google’s German-to-English translation service is actually pretty good.

While there is no end-to-end system to do what you want, you can put the pieces together yourself; I’ve already suggested Google for the translation (for a free web service, they do a good job; even machine translation researchers use their system for testing and baseline comparisons). Dragon NaturallySpeaking 9 is available in a German version from the Amazon UK. Be aware that you will get much higher accuracy by giving the letters to a bunch of bilingual speakers to translate them for you.

This is the sad fact of computer language understanding. Sources: I work in speech & language processing .

http://www.amazon.com/Dragon-NaturallySpeaking-Preferred-Speech-Recognition/dp/B000H2049I/sr=8-1/qid=1166120003/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1/105-8458938-4162865?ie=UTF8&s=softwareThis product, Dragon NaturallySpeaking 9 Preferred Speech Recognition will take German (there is a german edition) and convert to german text. http://www.amazon.com/Translation-Software-Windows-Promt-Professional/dp/B000H2RXIS/sr=8-3/qid=1166120451/ref=sr_1_3/105-8458938-4162865?ie=UTF8&s=softwareThis program translates from German to englishEnglish German Translation Software for Windows. Promt Professional 7.0Other products by PromtPlatform: Windows XP / 95 / 98 / 2000 / MeList Price: $359.95Price: $339.95 Sources: My answer .

1 Here are more details I should have provided in the first place. The letters I have to translate from German to English are mostly typed (with old German typewriters) but some are handwritten. I don't know if OCR can read the old German type fonts but I guess it's worth a try, if the translation software can then do a decent job.

I gave the Google program a shot and the English was almost undecipherable. I am pretty fluent in German so I can read the German text and then speak a decent English translation. So with an English voice-recognition program I would then have it in written text.

But it would take forever to do the hundreds of pages I have to translate. The perfect solution for my problem probably doesn't exist but thanks for your help. It was helpful.

Here are more details I should have provided in the first place. The letters I have to translate from German to English are mostly typed (with old German typewriters) but some are handwritten. I don't know if OCR can read the old German type fonts but I guess it's worth a try, if the translation software can then do a decent job.

I gave the Google program a shot and the English was almost undecipherable. I am pretty fluent in German so I can read the German text and then speak a decent English translation. So with an English voice-recognition program I would then have it in written text.

But it would take forever to do the hundreds of pages I have to translate. The perfect solution for my problem probably doesn't exist but thanks for your help. It was helpful.

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