Question: Is it ok to take my live feed and add audio to text live on my web site?

[psycoborg]

I plan on taking my live feed and programming a plugin to have live Audio to text conversion. It will save the text in an SQL server. and will show each broadcast up to 10 lines. it will have a scroll bar so you can scroll back on broadcasts that might have been missed. so people will know why a code 33 is in progress. or why people are hearing sirens outside.

Before i do this, is there anything i should know before i do this? second. before i do this, does radio reference or broadcastify already offer this feature?

For Privacy if there is an address, phone number, or any gate codes or lock combinations broadcast, I plan on replacing that with [Redacted] and just showing the street name.


While this looks like a great idea in my brain right now, I feel the need to ask before i start this project.

 

[jtwalker]

I’d say it is very doubtful your speech-to-text conversion will work with how most public safety speak. Maybe it will be more successful if you have computer dispatch…

 

[psycoborg]

There are 2 AI API modules that will take the recordings and convert them to test. and they claim high accuracy. They are not free, but was thinking of programming some php and java with ajax to the api to do this. I do have a live feed on my web site and my scanner app saves each transmission as an mp3 file. not sure how well it will work but was wanting to try it out.

 

[jtwalker]

I tried this using ProScan to bring audio to a Chrome browser, and then a (free) plug-in to convert to text. I realize a free utility won’t be as good as a commercial one.

Some people speak clearly enough, slowly enough and enunciate well enough for software to convert. Other do not. And then there are all the terms used by public safety that aren’t really words.

I’m not trying to discourage you, but I just would have high hopes of great success.

 

[PacScan]

I do this with AI currently, trust me, it will be hard to get it to work how you want. Also, it can get very costly if you're not hosting your own models. But yes, it's possible to do and has helped me with work quite often actually.