I have a buffer of audio and I'd like to perform speech recognition/transcription on it. I have limited CPU and RAM locally so I want to perform recognition on a server.
Are there any (web) services that allow me to do this?
My searches so far have led nowhere...
Lumenvox offers such a service but seems expensive for your needs.
Google has just introduced browser-based access to its speech engine through HTML5.
http://slides.html5rocks.com/#speech-input
To get this page to work, I launched the Chromium browser as follows in Ubuntu:
I believe that the idea is to be able to build applications that use Google's speech recognizer, but I haven't had a chance to look deeply into it.
Another interesting project is WAMI from MIT: http://wami.csail.mit.edu