The Best Voice to Text Transcription Software

What is the best Voice to Text transcription software?

A voice to text software transcribes audio content into written word. This makes it possible for you to easily search through and share your thoughts, ideas or some other relevant information with others.

Imagine this scenario: you have an audio recording of a very important business meeting, during which many important topics were covered, business strategies were discussed, there was a heated brainstorming session in the middle of the meeting in which a great deal of ideas was brought to light, but they were not fleshed out completely. The next meeting is scheduled next week, and you are trying to do your best to prepare yourself and other members of the team for a more constructive meeting, in which you should work out in more detail all the great ideas that surfaced in the brainstorming session.

You start listening to the 3 hour long recording and start taking notes, and after 10 minutes realize that this task will take you an entire day, and you simply don’t have enough time to go through it in detail.
It would be a great if you could just send this audio recording to some kind of program, or better yet, an automated internet transcription interface, upload it to the platform, wait a couple of minutes, and as the end result, receive a detailed, precise textual transcription of the entire recording,  in whatever file format best suits your needs. It would also be great that the text transcription is organized neatly, with the recognition of each speaker, each one having its own paragraph, and better yet, automatic punctuation after each sentence, so you don’t have to read an imposing wall of text. Another great feature would be that the transcription service has sophisticated noise cancelling and speech recognition algorithms, so you don’t have to worry if the sound recording is not of perfect audio quality, or if there is some low background noise in the recording, like the sound of coffee percolator, the printing machine doing its job, or some colleagues chit chatting at the other end of the office. A good transcription service should be able to automatically recognize what is important in the recording, and give you a clean, precise transcription of the important conversations. Ideally, the entire transcription should not last too long, you just upload the audio recording, go make yourself another cup of coffee or tea, come back to your workstation, and your much-needed transcription is already there, all 15 pages that cover each word that was spoken on that important meeting. You now have time to go through the transcript at your own pace, underline and circle the most important points that were made, you can make a shortened version that covers the most relevant parts, you can share the transcript or the shortened version to other members of your team, and then you can finally kick back and relax, knowing that you have done all that can be done to ensure that your next team meeting will be constructive and well organized.

Well, if you are thinking that the scenario, we described above is still in the realm of science fiction, you are wrong. The modern technology is advancing at unprecedented rate, and one of the most dynamic fields is speech recognition. You have undoubtedly heard about Siri by Apple, Amazon Alexa, Microsoft Cortana and all the other virtual assistants that are becoming a common feature on almost any Android, iOS and Microsoft device. All these virtual assistants use advanced technology like neural networks, deep learning, AI and constant interaction with the input in order to “learn” to successfully recognize individual speech patterns of various users, and respond appropriately to their commands. The more input they process, the better they become at recognizing different variations of same words, sentences, and specific accents of end users. The technology is becoming more reliable day by day, and the same technological principles are used in the dynamic field of automatic transcription software.

Today, there are some great providers of automatic transcription services, that use the same cutting-edge speech recognition innovations on their internet platforms. You simply upload your audio recording onto their internet platform, or, in some cases, even mobile apps. The combined might of AI, neural networks, deep learning, huge data sets that include vocabularies from many different languages, accents and local variants, all of this is used to process your audio recording in a precise and clever way in order to provide you with the best possible transcript of whatever audio or video you need transcribed. There is no need to do transcripts by your own, and waste your valuable time and energy, the future is here.

Okay, maybe we have convinced you take a look at this advanced transcription technology, and now you are wondering which transcription service provider would be best for your specific personal or business needs. This is also not so simple as it seems, because there is a great variety of voice to text transcription software, some of course more suitable for some businesses or individuals than other. This is why you need to be careful to make the right choice. What you need to consider is what is most important for you: Do you need the transcripts as soon as possible? Do you need it to be very accurate? Maybe both things are extremely important in your case. Also, before you make a decision, you’ll need to look into in which situations you want to use the software and what exactly do you expect from it?

Let’s us now introduce you to some of the most prominent and intriguing transcription software and see what is in it for you.

1. GGLOT

Gglot is one of the rising stars in the field of transcription services. This dynamic and flexible provider offers accurate transcription services, fast and for a fair price. Gglot is very user-friendly, it is a great choice for people who aren’t very technically savvy, or simply don’t have enough time to waddle through complicated interfaces. Everything is fast and efficient here, but the end results are always great. Gglot offers automated transcription, but also human transcription services, which is great if you have some very intricate and complex audio recordings that you need to have flawlessly transcribed by experienced language experts. Gglot is constantly being upgraded in various ways, and should be one of the top contenders in any serious list of automated transcription service providers.  

2. Dragon Anywhere

Dragon Anywhere is a more conventional software. It has many great features, maybe the most mentionable one is that it actually learns your speaking style. Even though this takes time, the software increases accuracy the more it is being used. Another interesting feature is for people who are searching to boost their efficiency: Dragon Anywhere has the possibility to edit texts in real-time. The downside of this software is that it is not free, so maybe it isn’t the right choice for everyone.

3. Temi

Temi is one of the larger transcription service providers, and their platform is often used in big corporations. They have adequate and solid speech recognition software. Their price for transcription is 25 cents/minute.

4. Transcribe

Transcribe is a transcription app which can offer transcriptions into 80 languages. This makes it a really convenient app for people who have clients from all around the world, like journalists or researchers. It might also be a great choice in situations where you have more than one speaker. All of this makes it a good choice for big, multinational corporations with a complex network of customers and clients that all speak different languages.

5. Speechnotes

Speechnotes is a great speech to text software which will record as long as you want. It also has a feature that gives you the possibility to edit your text through typing or even via voice. Speechnotes is a free app, so it might be a good choice for students or people who are just starting their businesses and don’t have a big budget to work with. It can of course also be updated.

More information about transcription possibilities

Clearly, it is up to you which software you will chose. But in any case, it will have a great effect on your organization and efficiency. With just one software you will be able to turn your audios to text, edit documents, share your content with colleagues or clients etc. In the busy business world of today, time is money. Every minute or hour you spare by strategic use of advanced transcription services can be put to better use in further developing your personal or business goals and aims and achieving the levels of success you have not yet even dreamed about.

If you are interested in the topic of transcription and if you want to make your everyday life easier browse through our blog and you will be able to read many interesting articles and hopefully learn something new about different ways to be efficient at the workplace.