Voice to text language

[insomniux]

As a happy new owner of a Boox Tab Ultra C, while investigating the possibilities, I came across the option of entering text by just mumbling word to the device, which then are translated into printed text, the Speech to text functionality. In general this seems to work fairly well and I'd like to start using it more seriously. I have however two questions on which I could not find an answer at Boox or in the forums:

1. Are there more languages available then English, Chinese and Japanes, and if yes where could I find them?

2. Are there speech commands with which you can enter interpunction, new lines, or delete characters.

[Renate]

Good questions. I don't know.

I have my own streaming radio app that I wrote.
I was listening to news just the other day I was surprised to see a popup with scrolling text.
Huh? I didn't put that in there.
It turns out that it was Android's "Live Caption" which analyzes your audio (locally, they say) and generates captions.
Well, I turned that off!
The settings says that it is currently only available in English.

Yes, I know that this isn't what you were talking about.

[Dsharma]

1. For the languages, the availability would depend on the speech-to-text engine the device is using. If it's using something like Google's speech-to-text, many more languages should be available. You might need to check the settings or contact Boox support for an accurate list.

2. For voice commands, it varies between systems. Generally, you can say "period", "comma", "new line", or "delete" to add punctuation, create a new line, or delete characters, but you'll need to confirm if these work on your Boox.

[insomniux]

That would indeed be interesting, a local voice-to-text engine. Have to wait for a localized (in my case Dutch) language module...

Originally Posted by Renate

Good questions. I don't know.

I have my own streaming radio app that I wrote.
I was listening to news just the other day I was surprised to see a popup with scrolling text.
Huh? I didn't put that in there.
It turns out that it was Android's "Live Caption" which analyzes your audio (locally, they say) and generates captions.
Well, I turned that off!
The settings says that it is currently only available in English.

Yes, I know that this isn't what you were talking about.

[insomniux]

In the Boox Tab Ultra, it has natively Android 11, Google Speech Services seems to be installed, I just found out. Not sure, though, how to install or enable additional languages. Since I assume the translation is not taken care of locally and Google supports hundreds of languages () one would expect that the speech-keyboard should sport more languages than English, Chinese and Japanese.

The interpunction commands do not work, unfortunately.

Originally Posted by Dsharma

1. For the languages, the availability would depend on the speech-to-text engine the device is using. If it's using something like Google's speech-to-text, many more languages should be available. You might need to check the settings or contact Boox support for an accurate list.

2. For voice commands, it varies between systems. Generally, you can say "period", "comma", "new line", or "delete" to add punctuation, create a new line, or delete characters, but you'll need to confirm if these work on your Boox.

[Xeko]

Hey, I wonder if there's a way to use TTS offline. Like, can I download some voices or something? And also, can I add Bing TTS service to my app? That would be awesome.

[insomniux]

Just got the reply fromt Onyx support. They currently do not have more Speech modules than the three provided. But they are planning to add more. Of course they did not say anything about their time lines.

Originally Posted by insomniux

As a happy new owner of a Boox Tab Ultra C, while investigating the possibilities, I came across the option of entering text by just mumbling word to the device, which then are translated into printed text, the Speech to text functionality. In general this seems to work fairly well and I'd like to start using it more seriously. I have however two questions on which I could not find an answer at Boox or in the forums:

1. Are there more languages available then English, Chinese and Japanes, and if yes where could I find them?

2. Are there speech commands with which you can enter interpunction, new lines, or delete characters.

[snapper.fishes]

Gboard has built-in STT for most languages.