Tuesday, November 19, 2019

brief review of machine transcription - old recording to text

Tried out automated speech recognition from Google. Though there is a lot of improvement over the last couple of decades, still a long way to go. 

1. Google's paid product is priced at around Rs. 100 per hour, with the first hour free. https://cloud.google.com/speech-to-text/
 Google's version first:

Followed by my transcript.


You can see that it has made quite a few mistakes, and more importantly, missing entire sections. The skipping of sections would be the big  no-no for me. (I take around 3 minutes to transcribe one minute of English from this old recording).

2. Using Google Docs "voice typing" free feature - 


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