No, you do not need a 'cloud'. Getting text from speech is a separate problem from the interpretation of that text. That last part is sometimes called NLU: Natural Language Understanding and is related to Natural Language Processing. Several cloud or online services exist that do both and there are that only do the text-to-speech, not the NLU. There are offline (ROS)-packages as well: * https://wiki.ros.org/pocketsphinx (though not easy to make reliable in my experience). Also take a look at https://answers.ros.org/question/246247/speech-recognition-packages-for-ros-kinetic-kame/ * For RoboCup@Home, my team uses https://github.com/tue-robotics/dragonfly_speech_recognition together with https://github.com/tue-robotics/grammar_parser * https://answers.ros.org/question/60323/speech-recognition-packages/ * https://github.com/julius-speech/julius * https://snips.ai/ --- [Visit Topic](https://discourse.ros.org/t/do-i-need-a-cloud-for-speech-recognition-or-speech-to-text/4347/2) or reply to this email to respond. If you do not want to receive messages from ros-users please use the unsubscribe link below. If you use the one above, you will stop all of ros-users from receiving updates. ______________________________________________________________________________ ros-users mailing list ros-users@lists.ros.org http://lists.ros.org/mailman/listinfo/ros-users Unsubscribe: