Hi all,
I am conducting oral history interviews in Spanish. From the interviews I have conducted so far, I have found transcribing them to be an impossibly slow process. Even with transcription software, it is taking me about an hour to transcribe 3 minutes of audio, not helped at all by the fact that Spanish is not my first language.
Can anybody recommend any audio transcription SOFTWARE which could help to transcribe my already-recorded audio files (interviews)? I say software because I have a budget to ask for software but not for paying somebody to transcribe. A few people have recommended Dragon (by Nuance).
Any help greatly appreciated.
Tom
Google Cloud Speech-to-Text ( https://cloud.google.com/speech-to-text/ ) is considered the best speech-to-text engine. You can also try Speechmatics and Amazon Transcribe services. AFAIR Dragon uses pretty old engine, and supports only English (I may be wrong here).
As a result you will get a high quality transcription, so you will only have to correct several mistakes. Expect Word Error Rate of about 10-15%, depending on audio quality. So it is possible to transcribe 3 minutes audio in 10-15 minutes.
Hi Gemma Ruiz
, I used Dragon NaturallySpeaking. To be honest, it hasn't been great and it struggles to transcribe if there's any background noise. A colleague of mine found Trint to be very good but it's a website, rather than software and quite expensive. Unfortunately, I had to buy software because I needed a one-off purchase.- Badges
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