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From: Weissenberger, Todd M
Date: Feb 18, 2016 12:05PM

If you have a budget, we recommend outsourcing to rev.com. Upload your media file and they'll caption/transcribe for $1/minute.

If you have to do it in-house, YouTube does a pretty good job of rendering speech-to-text, and is especially useful when the speaker is clear, and you can clean it up afterward.



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From: Moore,Michael (Accessibility) (HHSC) [mailto: <EMAIL REMOVED> ]
Sent: Thursday, February 18, 2016 12:51 PM
To: WebAIM Discussion List
Subject: Re: [WebAIM] Speech to text

Camtasia has that functionality built into its captioning module. I was not overly impressed the only time I had to use it, but the audio quality of the source was not very good either. If you have access to Camtasia it may be worth a shot. It will at least get you started. The results were a bit better than I got with YouTube auto-captions, but I still got to spend some quality time cleaning up the files before they were ready for publication. Camtasia does have a very nice interface for editing the captions.


Mike Moore
Accessibility Coordinator
Texas Health and Human Services Commission Civil Rights Office
(512) 438-3431 (Office)

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From: WebAIM-Forum [mailto: <EMAIL REMOVED> ] On Behalf Of L Snider
Sent: Thursday, February 18, 2016 12:11 PM
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Subject: [WebAIM] Speech to text

Hi Everyone,

I need to transcribe an audio interview onto text and wondered if there is anything more automated out there. I have tried Dragon and it works okay, but am wondering what other good programs are out there.

Thanks!

Cheers

Lisa