Does such a software exist?
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Surely there should be something invariant between these two utterances of 'rainy'.
Yes and no. The similarities can be washed out by the noise in the sentence, particularly with all of the different accents/varieties of English that are spoken around the world. Also, just identifying word endings can be tricky. Picking out words from "rainy days" can give "rainy days", "ray knee days" or "ray need as'" without changing the sound.
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If I had one file, I wouldn't have asked. I have at least 100 files, and have heard them once at least, and would like to find whether certain keywords occur in them. Something like batch-processing is what I an looking for. That's why I asked.
Run the files through a (batch) speech recognition program and dump the whole thing to a text file. You can (re)search the text without having to go back to the mp3. Looking at a file in its entirety will help in deciding how to "train" the (ML) process. [Transcribe your recordings](https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/transcribe-your-recordings-7fc2efec-245e-45f0-b053-2a97531ecf57)
"Before entering on an understanding, I have meditated for a long time, and have foreseen what might happen. It is not genius which reveals to me suddenly, secretly, what I have to say or to do in a circumstance unexpected by other people; it is reflection, it is meditation." - Napoleon I
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The answer in that link leads to the VOSK project[^], which in turn has a page that lists several projects that integrate the VOSK toolkit. One of those projects is pretty much exactly what the OP is asking for: mp4grep[^]. Looks like it's Linux-only, and using it is a two-step process unless you happen to be starting with a 16khz wav file, but it appears to automate the process of using speech recognition to generate a timestamped transcript, and then grep'ing the result to find the word or expression of interest. I didn't actually try to use it, so I can't vouch for its quality, but it looks pretty neat if it works!
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I have an MP3 file. It is an hour-long lecture on a topic about weather. I would like to find out ('seek') the exact time(s) when the word 'rainy' gets played in this MP3 file, without listening to the entire hour-long lecture. Similar to finding a substring in a long string, but finding an audio clip within an audio file. Does such a software functionality exist? My Google search didn't yield much.
Hmmm, Did you find a solution for this? [Whisper](https://openai.com/blog/whisper/) was released just yesterday. [GitHub - OpenAI/whisper](https://github.com/openai/whisper) Looks really easy to use.
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Hmmm, Did you find a solution for this? [Whisper](https://openai.com/blog/whisper/) was released just yesterday. [GitHub - OpenAI/whisper](https://github.com/openai/whisper) Looks really easy to use.
Thanks a lot. Will download and take a look.
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Thanks a lot. Will download and take a look.