[grc] speech to text software

[Spencer Graves]

Hello, All:


       I suggest you try "otter" (otter.ai).  It's free for up to 600 
minutes (10 hours) per month, and $9.99 per month or $79.99 per year for 
up to 6,000 minutes (100 hours) per month.  And the turn around time is 
great:  It produced a reasonable transcript for me from a roughly 90 
minute mp4 file in a relatively few minutes.  (Sorry:  I didn't time 
it.)  It then gives me an editor, where I can listen and correct the 
problems.


       It's not perfect, and it would have probably taken me a day to 
produce a credible transcript.  In this case I decided I did not have 
either the time nor the need for a perfect transcript.  I stripped out 
the mp3 audio and used Audacity to edit that down to 54:27 (mm:ss) with 
the help of that imperfect transcript, and made my deadline for a 
broadcast on KKFI.[1] I've previously used Trint for that kind of 
thing.  However, Trint charges $15 per hour and has not performed nearly 
as well as my one test of Otter.ai.


       I found this in an article entitled, "The Best Transcription 
Services for 2019" in PC Magazine 2018-08-22.[2]  The option they 
recommend is "Rev", which is $1 per minute -- and takes quite a bit 
longer.  However, even Rev wasn't perfect.  With a 16-minute test sample 
with 3 speakers, Rev had an error rate of 3% vs. 17% for Otter and 78% 
for Trint.  In another test with only 2 speakers, Trint had an error 
rate of 14% vs. 21% for Otter;  Rev was not included in that second test.


       Spencer Graves
       Secretary of the Board, KKFI.org
       Kansas City


[1]
https://kkfi.org/program-episodes/extinction-rebellion-in-kansas-city-2019-08-21-2/


[2] This PC Magazine article compared 10 different speech to text services:
https://www.pcmag.com/roundup/359079/the-best-transcription-services


On 2019-08-30 17:56, George Koster via grc wrote:
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> I’ve been using Descript for the past 18 plus months and it’s been a great software to convert audio files and now video files into text
>
> Its pretty inexpensive and a really great rough editing tool
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> Here’s the link https://www.descript.com/ <https://www.descript.com/>
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