Some Creative Ways to Save Time with Automatic Transcription
How transcriptions can be a real time-saver?
Choosing a transcription service
When choosing a transcription services, you should know that you are dealing with a sector that is constantly developing. These services use highly advanced machine-learning technology in their speech-to-text engines. The speech technology of today is actively upgrading itself and uses tech such as creation of neural networks and some of the applicable features of natural language processing and natural language understanding. In any case, the final result of your audio, when uploaded and processed through these transcription platforms should be a written text, a transcript that can be formatted into many different file versions, according to your need or software capabilities. When choosing an automated transcription service, you should make sure that it includes the following features, which are considered to be essential for any high-quality transcription platform:
AUTOMATIC SPEECH RECOGNITION
GLOBAL VOCABULARY
Your automated transcription service should have the ability to leverage and efficiently use massive data sets. These data sets are used to recognize and process languages, along with all their various dialects and local variants. Any respectable transcription service should be able to process at least 30 languages, and have enough processing power for all the combined vocabulary of these languages.
NOISE CANCELLATION
AUTOMATIC PUNCTUATION
SPEAKER RECOGNITION
Another very useful feature, which makes the transcript much more readable in the end, is the ability to automatically detect the changes of the speakers, and then separate the transcript into different paragraphs, according to the exchange of the speakers. This makes the transcript easy to read, almost like a film script, instead of the wall of text that some lower quality transcription services churn out.
MULTI-CHANNEL RECOGNITION
In some specific cases, there are recordings where each of the participants is recorded in their own separate channel or track. Your automatic transcription software should have the ability to recognize each channel individually, process them simultaneously, and in the end combine each track into one unified transcript.
ADAPTIBLE API
Ideas for the use of transcripts
In this article we will mention some ways to use a transcript:
3. Social media – Another good idea is to record events of your company and transcribe them. You will be amazed how much interesting quotes you can find when you see them written on a piece of paper. You can use those quotes for interesting company tweets.
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