Converse Smartly - Your Free Speech to Text Software

“Time is everything” and converse smartly is one application that helps you to save your precious time.

Converse smartly is a smart solution to convert speech into text. A powerful tool that helps individuals and organizations to work much faster in an efficient way while increasing accuracy. This application is capable enough to understand or analyze the words or sentences from conferences, seminars, interviews, and team meetings.

Folio3 uses the latest speech recognition technology to provide a preeminent online speech recognition tool for the best and accurate results. Some built-in tools are also used simultaneously to increase the overall user`s productivity, efficiency, and ease of completing tasks.

The Technology Behind Converse Smartly® - Free Speech to Text Software

Converse Smartly (CS) is developed by the experienced and expert development team of folio3, which demonstrates the capabilities and skillset of its team members in the fast-growing fields of NLP and machine learning. 

Converse smartly is an advanced software for speech recognition. It is built by using the most advanced technologies currently available including IBM Watson API, Microsoft Azure, Google Speech-to-Text API, and Amazon AWS together with Python's Natural Language Toolkit, applying the magical processing at the front end (User Interface) using Facebook's ReactJs and JavaScript. Java's Spring-boot framework is used for the back end processing of converse smartly.

Converse Smartly – Your Efficient Speech-Enabled Notepad

Typing long documents has never been an easy task and there always remain chances of typos, and human errors, which may ruin the quality of the document. Not to forget, such long assignments and documents are also much exhausting and even annoying at times. Folio3 provides smart solution for efficient and enhanced operations with its Converse Smartly tool, which not only saves your typing hours but also reduces the chance of errors with great accuracy.

Converse Smartly is a perfect solution for People who do not like typing or find typing a stressful task. It is a smart talk to speech solution that does not only increase the convenience to its users but also remove the need for typing long assignment and documents. It brings flexibility in working at offices or even outside the offices, decrease the document turnaround time, lessen typing errors. Get yourself free from the typing hassle with this efficient speech to text software!

How to Use Discord Text to Speech on the Desktop App

Discord Text to speech is a fun method to get your message to deliver while chatting. On text to speech discord bot, one can activate the text-to-speech option by using a simple slash command at the start of your message.

First, check your current user settings if the feature is disabled, then you must need to enable the feature. 

Here's how to text to speech discord on the desktop app: 

You must have to enable the discord text to speech feature before using it, and for that, you need to do two things

Open Discord on your PC or MAC, and then hit the gear icon at the bottom-left, adjacent to your username.

Your settings will get open. Click "Notifications" at the sidebar on the left.

Find the "Text-to-Speech Notifications" on the page, choose either "For current selected channel" or "For all channels". The option "For currently selected channel" will restrict the feature to the currently open channel while choosing “For all channels" will allow you to hear every text to speech message in every channel and server.

Now in the sidebar, click "Text & Images".

Scroll down to "Allow playback & usage of the /tts command" and toggle on the switch next to it.

Finally, Discord Text-to-speech is enabled now.

It is a simple process to hear your message aloud when the TTS feature has been enabled once.

Open Discord and send a voice message in any channel you want.

Type "/tts" followed by a space, and then type your message.

Send the message.

The slash command will not appear anymore in your message, but all the users will hear your message aloud in the channel you have sent a message by a voice bot.

Text to speech discord bot was initially designed for gamers, but later on, it is used for everybody who belongs to different fields. Now people who use text to speech discord know how fun and useful it is, but at the same time, you can face some issues, that could be an accessibility issue or language barrier. Discord has multiple text and voice channels, and you can turn on the voice capabilities whenever you want by using text to speech feature. Let’s see how can we enable it and ensure that it is working fine. 

Step 1: Go to Discord’s settings

Open up your Discord app. You will see a gear icon at the bottom of the discord window just next to the headset icon – it is a discord setting tool. Click on the icon to open a sidebar on the left, it has all the Discord settings. 

Step 2: Search the text-to-speech feature

There are several sections in the setting menu find the section named "App settings" and go to the option Text and images select it. this is a section from where you can manage the look of your chats for any specific channel. Scroll down and find the option text-to-speech. 

Step 3: Enable the TTS function

Once you find the option Text to speech, which says Allow usage and playback of /tts command, enable that toggle button. Now you can use the discord text to speech feature whenever you want. 

Discord provides the easiest TTS process. Go to any channel of your choice and type "/tts" followed by a space at the starting of your message and hit the enter key. Once you clicked the enter key you will see a message without the /tts command, however, the command is activated and everybody in the channel can hear your message out loud. 

Step 4: Enable channel notifications as necessary

Notification is one of the most important things. Go to the app settings section in setting and find the option notifications. Select it, and you can see a different kind of alerts, scroll down till you find the option TTS notifications and enables it

Here you will have three options that you can choose from:

For all channels: By turning on this option, everyone in all the channels across the entire server you are part of can hears your message aloud. People do not have to use the command “/tts”, your message will automatically hear aloud by the voice bot. this is a very basic setting, but it is quite useful for people who cannot see.

For the currently selected channel: This option will let you have control over the channels. The users in the channel you are currently using will be able to hear the message aloud, 

Regardless of if they use the /tts command or not. This will be very handy and useful if you are busy working on other things on your computer and still do not want to miss the channel conversation; this will help you in reading out aloud while you can focus on different things as well.

Never: Text will not convert into speech, not even by using the “//tts” command. Everything will remain silent. It is good to use when you want to stop spammers.

You do not have to choose any of these options. It is important for two reasons: First, you do not only want to hear your message only but all messages on the channel. Second, it is good to remember that people can switch off TTS capabilities for Discord if they want.

How to Use Text to Speech Discord on Mac

Let's see How to Enable discord Text to Speech on Discord on Mac.

There are two ways you can turn on the TTS feature. You can enable the feature for all of your channels or only for a current channel you are using

Open the Discord app on your Mac 

At the bottom-left of the screen there is a gear icon, click that icon.

Click Notifications on the left.

Scroll down to Text-to-Speech Notifications.

Select For all channels or for the currently selected channel to allow users to hear your message as per your preference. (select Never option, To turn the feature off)

By configuring these settings, you will be able to hear your messages and audio messages from all the channels you are part of or only current channels you are opened, depending on the option you have selected.

click Text & Images

Toggle on the switch next to Allow playback & usage of the /tts command.

You can use this feature right away as you enabled the feature by typing the a /tts command at the start of your text. Do not forget to enter the space between the command and your message.

Other members of the channel won’t be able to hear the audio if their TTS feature is turned off, however they can see the text.

Open Discord and go to the channel where you want to send a message.

Type: /tts at the start of your message to read it aloud

Hit the enter key. The message will appear without the slash command. A text to speech bot will read your message aloud, along with “Username said.

Use the /tts slash command whenever you want to send an audio message.

How to Turn off/Disable/Mute Text to Speech Discord

Sometimes it gets frustrating to hear the messages aloud when you are not interested in the conversation or may have other tasks on which you have to concentrate. So, maybe at some point you just want to mute all text-to-speech messages, you can do so from the Discord user settings menu.

Method one: notification settings & server-wide mute

Go to the User Settings

Go to the Notifications section

Find the option Text-to-Speech

Never: the option “never” will not convert the text into speech no matter how hard your friends try. You will not be able to hear the tones of the Text to Speech bot anywhere.

Method two: read your sentences!

Go to the User Settings 

Find the Text & Images 

Find the Text-to-Speech

This option is used to enable or disable the /tts command. If you have turned off this option then the Text to Speech bot will not read text aloud, even after using the /tts command. 

Well, that is all with Discord text to speech, we wish and hope that these tips will help you when you use discord.

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Folio3 is Your Best Google Speech to Text Tech Partner

Folio3 is an internationally renowned leading technology solution provider. The company has the relevant experience, expertise, and resources to develop the best technology products.

 It has a team of dedicated professionals that deliver the best Artificial Intelligence services to fast track your growth.

Folio3 offers industry-leading google cloud speech to text services that are powered with machine learning that can precisely predict vocabulary, text, and language.

These services include the following main features: Google speech integration, back-end software integration, custom Google speech app development, and support and troubleshooting services.

How do I Use Google Text to Speech on Android Devices?

So now that you know how to use google text to speech in chrome let's move on to how to use google text to speech on your Android.

There are many built-in accessibility features within Android. If you want to use google text to speech and get text read aloud to you, all you need to do is follow the following simple steps.

Swipe down on your Android Phone, then click on the settings icon represented by a gear to open your device’s settings.

Once the settings have been opened up find the accessibility option and click on it.

Then click on the select to speak option. and turn it on.

Click on OK and to grant permission to your phone to switch the feature on.

Once enabled, go to any application on your android phone and click on the Select to Speak symbol (this will be present on the lower right corner of the screen).

Click on the Play button. Your phone will start to read whatever you see on-screen starting from the top of the screen.

If you need to read a specific chunk of the text, select that part before clicking on the select to speak symbol.

To stop, just click on the Stop icon.

Now that you know how to use google text to speech on Android, let's take a look at how you can have some control over it.

The Android operating system allows you to have some control of this feature. You can manipulate language, pitch, accent, and the speed of the text voice.

Now let us learn how to do that,

Swipe down on your Android phone once again to open the device settings.

Click the General Management option.

Click the Language and Input option.

Click the Text to Speech option.

When the menu opens, you will see options to change Pitch and the Speech Rate to your liking.

If you want to change the language, click the Language option and select the language you want to listen to while using the text to speech.

How to use Google Text to Speech for Text Messages

Now that you are familiar with how to use google text to speech on both Android and Chrome, let's move on to how to use google text to speech on Android text messages.

There are three different methods you can apply to use this feature to read your text messages aloud.

The first method you are already familiar with, but just in case you haven't seen it previously let me mention it again.

Swipe down on your Android Phone, then click on the settings icon represented by a gear to open your device’s settings.

Once the settings have been opened find the accessibility option and click on it.

Then click on the select to speak option. and toggle the switch to turn it on.

Click on OK and to grant permission to your phone to switch the feature on.

Once enabled, go to any application on your android phone and click on the Select to Speak symbol (this will be present on the lower right corner of the screen).

Click on the Play button. Your phone will then start to read everything you see on the screen starting from the top.

If you want to read a specific part of the text, select that part of the text before you click on the select to speak symbol.

To stop, just click on the Stop icon to end the playback.

The second method is even simpler than the first one all you have to do is follow along the simple steps below:

To have the text messages on your Android phone read out aloud all you have to do is ask. Yes, it is as simple as that.

Just simply ask the inbuilt Google Assistant on your android phone by saying “ Hey Google, read my text messages.” If you have any unread texts on your phone the Google Assistant will read them for you.

Furthermore, you can even reply to messages by using your voice.

The third method although a bit unreliable can also help you in case the other two methods fail to work.

To use this method just follow the steps listed below;

Find your Google Playstore and click on it.

Click on the magnifying glass symbol to search for third-party apps.

Just type in ‘ text to speech’.

Several apps will pop up

Click on the app you like best and click on Install

Now that you are well versed on how to use google text to speech on Android text messages and how to use google text to speech in chrome, let us learn how to use google speech to text on google docs and pdfs.

How to Use Google Text to Speech in Chrome

So how to use google text to speech in chrome and what can you do with it?

You can hear the entire page or you can even hear parts of the page. Furthermore, you can also hear specific words.

Accessing this feature in Google Chrome is super simple, all you have to do is follow the simple steps given below:

Install the ‘Read Aloud’ plugin from the chrome webstore. You can find it here.

Once downloaded, go to the webpage you want to be read out aloud.

Click on the Read aloud symbol that can be found within chrome's menu.

Shortcut keys like  ALT+P, ALT+O, ALT+comma, and ALT+period are used to play/pause, stop, rewind and forward respectively.

If you want to read a specific chunk of a text read aloud just select that text before you start the extension.

Furthermore, if you right-click on a highlighted piece of text it will provide you with another option to start Read Aloud through the context menu.

How to use Google Text to Speech to Read Pdf?

Getting text read out to you while browsing through a pdf document can be a bit difficult for new users of this feature. However, using it is just as easy as on android.

So let's get started.

To get pdfs read out to you first you have to download and install Adobe Reader on your computer if you don't already have it.

Once installed, open up the pdf file.

Open up the View menu present on the top of your screen.

Then move your cursor to the Readout Aloud sub-menu and click on Activate Read Out Aloud.

Alternatively, you can also use Ctrl+Shift+Y to activate the text to speech feature

How do I use Speech to Text on Google Docs?

Google docs has quite a nifty feature that most people are unaware of. With this feature, lazy people like myself can convert our voices to text on the screen. This not only saves time but also helps to pen down your ideas before you forget them.

So how to use speech to text on google docs?

Before we begin one thing to note here is that this feature only works on the Google Chrome browser.

The first step is to make sure that your microphone is activated. You can check this by going to your microphone settings within the System Preferences on your Mac computers or the Control Panel on a personal computer.

Now that you have made sure that your microphone is working, open up a document within Google docs via Google Chrome.

Then click on the Tools option within Google docs, after that go to the voice typing option and click on it. A microphone box will appear.

Click on the microphone box once you are ready to start speaking.

Make sure to speak with clarity ensuring a normal pace and volume.

When you are done speaking, click on the microphone box once again.

Conclusion:

Now that you know how to use google text to speech on multiple platforms, I sure hope that you will be making use of this marvelous feature for both personal and professional use.

Not only will this feature serve you well in improving your customer interactions but it will also help you to engage with users and personalize your communication according to their preference.

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Image Labeling is a way to identify all the entities that are connected to, and present within an image. The images can have multiple entities present within it, ranging from people, things, foods, colors and even activities, which will all be recognized in this process. This way, the users know what their image is portraying, and the ones who are viewing the image also find out what is being displayed in front of them. For this purpose, the best machine learning as a service and image processing service is offered by Folio3 and is highly recommended by many.

Image Labeling can be used through APIs that are both, cloud-based and on the device itself, making it easier to use, and is friendly with both the main software systems, iOS and Android. Image Labeling also comes in handy in many different ways, for example, the organization or person administering the image labeling can gage insights into what the image is portraying, and how it is doing so. This information leads them to find out how the images can be used to their advantage, and then they can plan and perform further tasks, like content moderations, or automatic metadata generation, etc.

What is Image Annotation?

Image Annotations are currently high in demand due to the rapid growth and widespread use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML). The developments in these areas have led to more and more images now being annotated, and are being used not only for image attractions but also for future predictions on different scenarios. The computer vision that the AI and ML models have, can visualize different objects through videos and pictures, which is why it is best if they are annotated using the special technique, and if conducted on a large scale, it can be used as data for further training.

One major use of annotated images is to train different AI and ML algorithms through them, which would, in turn, help the machines in learning and storing the different patterns to its virtual memory, and then relate and utilize that memorized image to identify the different real-life situations later and analyze the similarity of that data. For this reason, most of the work conducted is through online image annotation and tools.

Different types of Image Annotations are used today, namely:

• Bounding Box
• Polygon Annotation
• 3D Cuboid
• Semantic Segmentation
• Land-marking

The annotated images, once completed, are then fed to the trained or training models and algorithms to ensure its accuracy, and whether the model has undergone correct and complete training, which is checked by the machine learning engineers themselves. Though, one can never be sure how much data is required for training the algorithms.

Is there any difference between image annotation and labelling images?

Labelling Images and Image Annotation are generally processes that are conducted together, because an image needs to be classified, put labels onto and then used further for annotation and then prediction purposes. Though, both terms are different, and some very obvious differences are highlighted below:

Key Criteria for Reviewing Labelling Images / Image Annotation Tool

The criteria for Labelling Images and Image Annotation Tools differ only a little, with some key points in favour of both.

Key Criteria used for reviewing Labelling Images tools

Pricing

Since Labelling Images tools are available on the device and as a cloud-based entity too, a person has to decide which one suits their needs the most. In the case of pricing, it is found that on device it is free of charges, though, the cloud-based system is free for only the first few uses, if you want to use it again, there will be a minimum fee.

Label Coverage

The next important thing is to see how many labels are present for you to use. For example, for on-device users, there are around 400 or more labels present, which are of common things and most commonly used, but for cloud users, there are more than 10,000 labels belonging to multiple different categories.

Specific entity IDs

Another thing that is a criterion and is available to cloud and on-device users is the use of knowledge graph and entity IDs, which is a different ID for each object in the labels and has support available to help you with the process.

Key Criteria used for reviewing Image Annotation tools

Price

Again, price is a very important factor for users to determine which tools gives the most value for money and is highly useful.

Variety

The variety of features that a tool offers is what attracts users. This refers to the different kinds of functions, tools or formats that different tools provide, and the one with the higher number of services definitely gets an upper hand.

Management and Usage

For tools to attract the right users, they need to have management expertise if different kinds of projects, so that maximum people find them useful. Moreover, the ease of use of the tools also counts, because no one has the time to deal with complex tools as image annotation itself is a complex process, so the tools should be as easy to use as possible.

5 Best Labelling Images Tools in 2021

LabelIMG

This is an open-source and free of cost image labelling tool, which is highly easy to install in Windows operating systems as it has built-in binaries for it already, which is a USP for it. The good thing about this is that it is an offline tool, making it simpler and faster to label images and retrieve the saved ones. Otherwise, it is a very simple tool and has nothing advanced in it. Additionally, it only supports bounding boxes and no other kind of labelling method.

Labelbox

This is a web-based platform that is continuing to grow and improve its functionalities and has 2 pricing packages to offer its users: free of cost (but is limited to 5000 images) and an enterprise pricing plan that is charged. It offers lines, boxes, polygons and all sorts of labelling techniques, along with great project management methods too, like monitoring performance, quality control, etc. Though its file saving option is complicated and files can overlap each other, causing confusion in later stages.

RectLabel

This is another tool for image labelling, though, like LabelIMG was more comfortable with Windows, RectLabel is made for the macOS and is easy to use for all macOS users. It is free of cost and provides great ways to label images using bounding boxes and polygons.

ImageTagger

Another image labelling tool is ImageTagger, and as the name suggests, it is extremely easy to tag pictures with labels through it. It is free of cost, as it is an open-source platform, and provides a variety of labelling techniques. In addition, it also provides a unique method of image labelling collaboratively on a larger scale, if needed.

LabelMe

It is one of the classic image labelling tools in the industry, which was built by MIT on an open-source format. Its best labelling technique is using the polygonal way of labelling, though, its level of precision has proved to be extremely low and uneven.

10 Best Image Annotation Tools in 2021

VGG Image Annotator

Being an open-source platform, it is free of cost, and like LabelIMG, can perform simple tasks without project management very easily. It is the only platform amongst many that support the use of circles and ellipses along with other polygons, dots and lines in annotating images. It does not support advanced management, but its interface is highly efficient and precise.

Supervise.ly

This web-based platform is an advanced annotation tool, which also has a library containing deep learning models that you can immediately train and test. Though it is a community and free tool, it does have an enterprise plan that charges. With a variety of tools, you can also use it to draw holes in polygons, and it lets you order you figures in a layered format, which are highly valuable features. It provides you with image format options like Cityscapes and COCO, as well as the possibility of a direct transformation to the platform. Teams, datasets, workspaces, it provides project management for all these, but it lacks time statistics and quality control mechanisms.

BeaverDam

This tool is a little different because it caters to video annotations specifically, and is popularly used by engineers all over the world. It works as a Python Django server locally and has easy integration skills with mturk. It has a lot of features and you can achieve a lot from its annotations, but the only drawback is that you need to have some prior knowledge or expertise of it, and have to learn how to use the tool in the most efficient way.

Diffgram

Diffgram enables teams to process large quantities of datasets, such as images, videos, etc. in one go. You can easily create workflows and check progress through it, along with it automatically assigning tasks and saving up on time. It also creates versions that are immediately web-ready, so that annotators can easily access it, and it is also compatible with cloud computing. Diffgram has different pricing levels, where Explorer is free of cost, Teams have a cost per user charge and Enterprise charges according to the business needs.

Prodigy

Prodigy is a highly efficient and scriptable data annotation tool, which is very easy to use and can train an AI model in only a few hours. It has a faster data collection, a more independent approach, and is known to have a higher level of successful projects than other tools. You can easily get state-of-the-art insights and user experiences about machine learning, along with it being highly powerful and using modern UX principles. Prodigy has two pricing plans: Personal (for $390) and Company (for $490).

Dataturks

Dataturks gives you a way to easily collaborate between teams to build high-level machine learning datasets in a short amount of time, and annotate as quickly as possible. It gives you a frequent tracking and improving feature for making better quality material for your models, and its return on investment has been quite high in recent years. It is an open-source platform and has both, a cloud version and an on-device version, and both are free of cost.

Computer Vision Annotation Tool (CVAT)

The computer vision annotation tool (CVAT) is developed by Intel. The software reiterates the embodiment of OpenCV, which was released 2 decades ago by the tech giant. As can be expected by software from Intel, CVAT comes with powerful and state-of-the-art annotation tools. And while getting familiar with all the features and functionalities of the software may take some time, it’s worth the efforts to get used to the tons of features offered by the platform for annotation. As a web-app, the software is easy to install and scale and offers plenty of automation instruments including; TensorFlow, Object Detection API, automatic annotation, and others. The only downside to the tool is the complicated UI, which may need several days to master.

Visual Object Tagging Tools (VoTT)

Visual Object Tagging Tools (VoTT) is yet another powerful image annotation tool. Developed by Microsoft, the software brings in an interactive and intuitive interface, making it easier for users to master the various functionalities and features offered by the tool. Moreover, the tool makes it easy for users to create a project without diving into the documentation details. VoTT is written in React Language with clean coding, moreover, the use of deep learning algorithms enable quick and accurate detection of objects. VoTT is available as a web-app, as well as, electron app.

Make-Sense

Make-Sense is a new entry in the image annotation world, which was released one year back. Like VoTT, Make-Sense comes with an incredibly user-friendly UX, making it easier for users to get started immediately. If you are an absolute beginner looking for a head-start to the image annotation field, Make-Sense is the right tool. All you need to do is to visit the website and drag & drop the images you want to annotate and you are good to go. What’s really cool is that the tool doesn’t store any images, so you can be sure of the privacy of the data.

Anno-Mage

Anno-Mage is another relatively new annotation tool that brings in a powerful object-detection model called “RetinaNet”. The tool is developed to offer users easy access to all the tools with an intuitive interface. The “RetinaNet” model used by the tool offers up to 80 object classes to users, minimizing the human efforts required to annotate the images.

FAQs

Can I crop images after labelling?

Cropping reduces image resolution, so it is preferred to crop before labelling the image so that the image is highly clear, though, cropping images after labelling can be done manually by the users, and depends on the which tool you are using for labelling images.

How can we use masking for labelling images?

Mask makes labelling images easier as it segments the images into the exact shapes of the different objects in the image, giving it a clearer and sharper way for labelling images accurately. The Mask model in Python is a state-of-the-art framework to build great and efficient labelling systems.

How do I label images in word?

To label images in Word, you need to follow a few easy steps as follows:

• Create a new document
• Insert a picture
• Click the image that you want to add the label to
• Click on “Mailings” and then on the “Label” tab
• Choose from pre-given data label sets

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