List of speech recognition software

Speech recognition software is available for many computing platforms, operating systems, use models, and software licenses. Here is a listing of such, grouped in various useful ways.

Acoustic models and speech corpus (compilation)

The following list presents notable speech recognition software engines with a brief synopsis of characteristics.

Application nameDescriptionOpen-sourceLicenseOperating systemProgramming languageSupported language, noteOffline or online
CMU SphinxHMMYesBSD styleCross-platformJavaEnglish, German, French, Mandarin, RussianOffline
HTKHMM neural netNoHTK specificCross-platformCEnglish; version 3.5 released December 2015
JuliusHMM trigramsYesBSD style, non-commercialCross-platformCJapanese, English; Offline
KaldiNeural netYesApacheCross-platformC++English
RWTH ASRRWTH Aachen UniversityNoRWTH ASR, non-commercial use onlyLinux, macOSC++English

Macintosh

Application nameDescriptionOpen-sourceLicensePriceNote
Dragon for Mac (discontinued 2018)macOS; by NuanceNoProprietary
Dragon Dictate (discontinued)macOS; by NuanceNoProprietary
MacSpeech Scribe (discontinued)Transcription from recorded text; acquired by Nuance
iListen (discontinued)PowerPC Macintosh; discontinued by MacSpeech; acquired by Nuance
Speakable itemsIncluded with macOS
ViaVoice (discontinued)IBM Product; acquired by Nuance
Voice NavigatorOriginal GUI voice control; 1989

Cross-platform web apps based on Chrome

The following list presents notable speech recognition software that operate in a Chrome browser as web apps. They make use of HTML5 Web-Speech-API.[1]

Application nameDescriptionOpen-sourceLicensePriceNote
Speechmatics[2]Cloud based and on-premise automatic speech recognitionNoProprietaryFrom £0.06 per minute of audio

Mobile devices and smartphones

Many mobile phone handsets, including feature phones and smartphones such as iPhones and BlackBerrys, have basic dial-by-voice features built in. Many third-party apps have implemented natural-language speech recognition support, including:

Application nameDescriptionOpen-sourceLicensePriceNote
Assistant.aiAssistant for Android, iOS and Windows PhoneNoProprietary, freewareFreeDiscontinued
Dragon DictationNoProprietary, freewareFree
Google NowAndroid voice searchNoProprietary, freewareFree
Google Voice SearchNoProprietary, freewareFree
Microsoft CortanaMicrosoft voice searchNoProprietary, freewareFree
Siri Personal AssistantApple's virtual personal assistantNoProprietary, freewareFree
Alexa – Amazon EchoAmazon's personal assistantNoProprietary
SILVIAAndroid and iOSNo
Vlingo

Windows

Windows built-in speech recognition

The Windows Speech Recognition version 8.0 by Microsoft comes built into Windows Vista, Windows 7, Windows 8 and Windows 10. Speech Recognition is available only in English, French, Spanish, German, Japanese, Simplified Chinese, and Traditional Chinese and only in the corresponding version of Windows; meaning you cannot use the speech recognition engine in one language if you use a version of Windows in another language. Windows 7 Ultimate and Windows 8 Pro allow you to change the system language, and therefore change which speech engine is available. Windows Speech Recognition evolved into Cortana (software), a personal assistant included in Windows 10.

Add-ons for Windows 7 speech recognition

  • Voice Finger – software for Windows Vista and Windows 7 that improves the Windows speech recognition system by adding several extensions to accelerate and improve the mouse and keyboard control.

Windows 7, 8, 10 third-party speech recognition

Windows XP or 2000 only

  • Microsoft Speech API – Speech recognition functionality included as part of Microsoft Office and on Tablet PCs running Microsoft Windows XP Tablet PC Edition. It can also be downloaded as part of the Speech SDK 5.1 for Windows applications, but since that is aimed at developers building speech applications, the pure SDK form lacks any user interface, and thus is unsuitable for end users.

Built-in software

Interactive voice response

The following are interactive voice response (IVR) systems:

Unix-like x86 and x86-64 speech transcription software

Discontinued software

See also

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