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Software developed by our team

During our work as speech technologists we developed additional software solutions for the work that often occur after "using ASR".
These various software packages are here described and made available for download.

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LabelMaker: How to add lables to the transcripts?

asrcorrectorLabelMaker V1.4 is a software program that allows you to add labels to selected parts of the subtitles.

appleLabelMaker_Win64.zip 

apple LabelMaker.dmg

appleCollectLabels_Win64.zip 
appleCollectLabels.dmg 

 

xmlAvailable_Labels.xml 

docAvailable_Labels.docx 

pdflabelMaker_Handleiding.pdf

CTMimprover: How to automatically improve the ASR-results in a CTM or SPK file.

appleCTMimprover_Win64.zip 

appleCTMimprover.dmg 

xmlHoofdletterwoorden.zip

pdfManual will follow.pdf

WhisperCorrector: How can I correct the mistakes within an automatically generated transcript with the OpenAI Whisper engine?

whispercorrector

WhisperCorrector is a software program with various screens that allows you to correct the outcome of the Whisper ASR-engine into a suitable and correct transcription. WhisperCorrector deals with the results of various Whisper ASR-engines (Whisper, WhisperX, Faster-Whisper, Faster-Whisper-XXL, Whisper by Surf, MacWhisper, and aTrain).

(last update: 23-04-2025)

Version: 2.7.12

appleWhisperCorrector_Win64.zip

appleWhisperCorrector.dmg

pdfWhisperCorrector_Manual.pdf

pdfWhisperCorrector_Handleiding.pdf

SRT to/from VTT: Software to convert SRT into VTT and from VTT to SRT.

 A simple program that reads a SRT or VTT file (select file) or a directory (select dir) with all SRT or VTT files and converts them to VTT or SRT.

apple SRTtfVTT_Win64.zip

appleSRTtfVTT.dmg

Whisper Batch: Gives the possibility to select various files that need to be recognised.

Gives the possibility to select various files that need to be recognised, each with its own items like model, languages and other otems. Once selected all the files, you can start the process from this program. It works now for Windows 64-bit and MacOS.

A manual will be written in the near future after the first comments :-).

apple WhisperBatch_Win64.zip

appleWhisperBatch.dmg

FromTo: How can I convert a ctm/spk file into subtitles and/or html-files?

FromTo

FromTo V1.7 (and above) is our solution for this.

Once the ASR has been done, one can download the (timed) results. However, each ASR-engine seems to have its own set of output-formats. Sometimes you can get a special XML-file, sometimes a CSV-file and sometime something else. Moreover, if it is XML, each ASR-engine seems to use its own XML-schema.

Karaoke example

So we wrote software that reads the (standard) output of the ASR-engines we support (a CTM-file), and transforms it into one of the following output formats:

  • SRT: the standard subtitle format used by nearly all existing video and audio players (like VLC)
  • VTT: the new internetversion of the SRT-format, used by all the modern browsers
  • Karaoke: a html-file where each recognised word is "connected" with the audio-file and where clicking on a word results in playing the audio-file from that word. Words played, are highlighted.
  • CHA: the format used in the CHILDES format.

appleFromTo_Win64.zip

appleFromTo.dmg

pdfFromTo_Manual.pdf

FAcleaner: How to convert the text from the ASRcorrector into a good FA_text that can be run by a FA-conversion?

faconvertorFAcleaner is a software program that corrects the text (from ASR corrector) and removes al kind of know errors. The outcome is a correct text that could be used by the FA-routine.

appleFAcleaner_Win64.zip

appleFAcleaner.dmg

pdfFAcleaner_Manual.pdf

 

FAconvertor: How do I combine the corrected transcript with the CTM-file to generated a subtitle/karaoke style file?

FAconvertor is a software program that combines the corrected text (from ASR corrector) with the CTM-file (i.e. outcome of the FAconvertor-software). The outcome is a correct HTML-file (Karaoke), SRT-subtile file and text-file that can easily be converted into a MSword-file.

faconvertorappleFAconvertor_Win64.zip

appleFAconvertor.dmg

pdfFAconvertor_Manual.pdf

pdfFAconvertor_Handleiding.pdf

 

FAgluer: How do I combine two (or more) parts of an interview into one set of files?

FAgluer is a software program that combines 3x 2 adjacent parts of an interview. The outcome is a new wav, ctm and txt-file.

gluer appleFAgluer_Win64.zip

appleFAgluer.dmg

pdfFAgluer_Manual.pdf

pdfFAgluer_Handleiding.pdf

 

SRT Condensor: software to turn the existing SRT file into longer pieces.

SRTcondersor is a software program that combines the original subtitles into pieces of X-minutes. The outcome is a new srt-file.

windowsSRTcondensor_Win64.zip

windowsSRTcondensor_Win32.zip

appleSRTcondensor.dmg

Links to useful software

To_WAV_Convertor: How do I convert audio or video files to WAVE files, a filetype which is often required by tools?

To WAV Converter for Mac - Fast and reliable conversion, batches of files and folders to customizable WAV in one click

ToWave convertor is a software program for MacOS that allows you to convert various AV-files into a 16-16-1 wav-files (a 16kHz, 16-bit, mono).

appleTo_WAV_Converter.zip

 

K-Lite: I can't seem to play certain mp4-files on my PC. How do I fix this?

klitecodecHere's the K-Lite Codec pack; two small audio-improvers you sometimes need to play mp4-files.
Start with "K-Lite_Codec_Pack_1608_Full.exe" and then eventually run "klcp_update_1608_20210313.exe".

For the latest information, see here.

windowsK-Lite_Codec_Pack

windowsklcp_update