Installing Vosk Offline Speech Recognition API (Speech to Text) on Windows

In this video, we will install and use vosk to transcribe an audio file. In the future, we will check out the source code and use the offline api from code.

Github URL:
https://github.com/alphacep/vosk-api

Vosk site:
https://alphacephei.com/vosk

Webdave normally gives access to a cloud version of a file from a local computer.  However, it is also possible to set up a 2-way sync over webdav, using either of the following 2 programs; one of which is paid and the other free.

http://www.re.be/webdav_sync/index.xhtml
works from the command line using Java (free)

http://www.pincette.biz/davbox/index.xhtml
a paid version costing 15 euros (15 day trial).

https://stephango.com/file-over-app

File over app is a philosophy: if you want to create digital artifacts that last, they must be files you can control, in formats that are easy to retrieve and read. Use tools that give you this freedom.

File over app is an appeal to tool makers: accept that all software is ephemeral, and give people ownership over their data...

Today, we are creating innumerable digital artifacts, but most of these artifacts are out of our control. They are stored on servers, in databases, gated behind an internet connection, and login to a cloud service. Even the files on your hard drive use proprietary formats that make them incompatible with older systems and other tools...

You should want the files you create to be durable, not only for posterity, but also for your future self. You never know when you might want to go back to something you created years or decades ago. Don’t lock your data into a format you can’t retrieve.