Transcription software

[Jeff Pulera]

Premiere has this built-in, though results will vary based on audio quality and the speaker

Jeff Pulera
Safe Harbor Computers

[Bret Williams]

Of that’s beyond your budget, do you have a budget? I was in the same boat and researched and there really isn’t any replacement. You’ll spend more time fixing.

Scribie.com is my 1.50 / min. choice.

[Chris Borjis]

The one in premiere (at this point) doesn’t work well as Jeff said.

In the tutorials they suggest loading a transcript then
doing the transcription which kinda defeats the entire purpose.

[Trevor Ward]

Yeah, the one in premiere got about 20% of the words correct. Hardly worth using. The person spoke perfect English and it was recorded to two mics in a professional setup. Perhaps the Speech to Text feature in Premiere is more geared for actors who are going off of a script, then being able to match the text to the audio then finding your place in the film. Not sure how that is too useful for anyone.

I found a website that claims $0.80 per minute. I’ll try one on that to see how it goes. If not, I’ll try the other one mentioned here. I’ve also found a few other websites that go above $1.50 per minute.

-Trevor F. Ward
Red Eye Film Co.
http://www.redeyefilmco.com
Orlando, FL

[Steve Brame]

No affordable audio transcription program will work well unless you can train it to a specific voice by having that particular voice read quite a bit of prepared copy and letting the app ‘learn’ the voice.

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[Chris Borjis]

[Steve Brame] “No affordable audio transcription program will work well unless you can train it to a specific voice by having that particular voice read quite a bit of prepared copy and letting the app ‘learn’ the voice.”

It’s a shame they don’t somehow use the google voice to text android technology.

It’s very accurate, with no voice training of any kind.

[Bret Williams]

So is Apple dictation. And I’ve tried cranking up the speakers and turning on notes on my iPad with dictation on to see how it does. It does terribly. And even when it does get a slew of words right, it misses all sorts of punctuation. Plus it limits itself to 30 sec or a min. When one speaks clearly like a narrator, it works good. But interviews with all the umms, and mumbling, you just need people.

That 1.50 a min is really ridiculously cheap. We had a bunch of interviews and I started doing it myself with Transcriva. It’s a good little transcription app. Supports foot pedals, but I discovered I could hover the mouse over the play/pause button and put my trackpad on the floor to step on as stop and start. I thought it was genius myself. But after 2 of the 10 interviews, I was immensely happy to send it all off to Scribie. Requests were usually done in less than a day. And you could open a browser window an watch the script get entered over the net! And they have a playback feature online where you see the waveform and can playback while it highlights in the script. Very slick. I’m not sure how anyone is making any money, because when it’s finished, it mentions that your $20 transcription took a total of 3 people, 4 man hours, etc. Every time I did the math and it seemed that anyone working for that company was making something like $3/hr. before they had to likely share a cut with scribie. And it wasn’t like it was some slave labor in uganda or something. They have an application process where anyone can take the test and become a associate. You log in and see what is available to transcode and jump in and work away whenever you like. I’ll pass.

[Alex Udell]

not transcription, but interesting and related:

https://www.borisfx.com/Soundbite/

Alex Udell
Editing, Motion Graphics, and Visual FX

[Mike Cohen]

There are literally thousands of transcription services, especially ones that do medical work. Nearly every hospital and physician’s office has doctors dictate patient notes and these are transcribed by a human.

We pay approx $100/hour of content and consider that a good deal.
You can use software to get you some percentage of accurate, then you or someone on your dime will have to go a sentence at a time to fix it, so you might as well pay a professional to begin with.

Software does not yet exist for everything!!

Mike Cohen

[Steve Brame]

Converting voice to text from someone speaking alone very clearly to generate a 160 character max SMS message can’t really be compared to a 30 minute interview with multiple speakers, sometimes talking over each other, and using terminology that one would probably NEVER utter in an SMS message.

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“98% of all computer issues can be solved by simply pressing ‘F1’.”
Steve Brame
creative illusions Productions