[MV] speech to text french-able applicaiton

[suzume at mx82.tiki.ne.jp]

Thank you for your reply.

Well, I did finish my transcription job anyway :)

I'd be curious to know what kind of French law keeps you from selling 
your software online for example ? It is merely a technical question 
though.

As for file formats, I am sure it has already been discussed in the 
proper places, but what is the ideal format for speech recognition ?

I heard somebody had worked on a french beta of iListen that did not 
give good enough results, what is the status of this beta ? Does it 
still exist ?

I don't understand the technical difficulties related to the 
development of such a software, can anybody give me pointers ?

Sincerely,

JC

On 2005/02/20, at 0:25, Chuck Rogers wrote:

> Jean-Christophe (and everyone else):
>
> There is no French dictation software for the Mac. Our product, 
> iListen, supports US, UK. and Australian/New Zealand English, German, 
> and Italian. Later this year we hope to be coming out with Spanish.
>
> We initially announced we intended to support French, but early on 
> discovered that the laws in France make it almost impossible for a 
> US-only company to sell software there. Without France as a 
> marketplace, there would not be enough sales to sustain the 
> development and support of a French product.
>
> But even if there were a French dictation product, you would be out of 
> luck. MP3 files do not contain enough audio information for speech 
> recognition. The format is optimized for compression of music. 
> Applying that compression to spoken word renders the recorded speech 
> unusable to the speech engine.
>
>
> Best Regards,
>
> Chuck Rogers, Chief Evangelist
> MacSpeech, Inc.
>
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