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From: Angela French
Date: Fri, Jun 17 2011 3:15PM
Subject: tool to convert oral recording to text?
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Does anyone know of a tool that can record an oral presentation/testimony and convert it to text? If you have experience with such a tool I would appreciate hearing from you.
Thank you,
Angela French
Internet Specialist
State Board for Community and Technical Colleges
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From: Angela French
Date: Fri, Jun 17 2011 3:30PM
Subject: Re: tool to convert oral recording to text?
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Thanks. That led me to transcription software in Wikipedia which is helpful.
From: Peter Krantz
Date: Fri, Jun 17 2011 3:36PM
Subject: Re: tool to convert oral recording to text?
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On Fri, Jun 17, 2011 at 23:16, Angela French < = EMAIL ADDRESS REMOVED = > wrote:
> Does anyone know of a tool that can record an oral presentation/testimony
> and convert it to text? If you have experience with such a tool I would
> appreciate hearing from you.
>
>
Are you looking for generic speech recognition software? There are a bunch
of those, e.g.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_speech_recognition_software
Regards,
Peter
From: John E Brandt
Date: Mon, Jun 20 2011 12:09PM
Subject: Re: tool to convert oral recording to text?
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At the Accessibility Unconference I attended last year there was a person
representing a company that did speech-to-text (STT) transcription of video
recordings. He claimed it was of fairly high quality but did indicate that
human editing was required to ensure accuracy. In the conversations that
followed, there was a general consensus that the technology to do accurate
automatic STT transcriptions from video is still not there.
Yes, Dragon Dictate does a reasonable job with one voice in a controlled
environment, but I don't think it can do multiple voices in the same setting
very well.
My suggestion would be to hire a good transcriptionist like a CART person if
you want an accurate STT transcript. The biggest advantage of the human
being is that the human can stop the proceedings and ask people to repeat
themselves when there is confusion or if multiple people are speaking.
You will recall that IBM's Big Blue genius "Watson" could not respond to
verbal content on Jeopardy....and IBM engineers were the ones who developed
STT.
John E. Brandt
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From: Birkir R. Gunnarsson
Date: Fri, Jun 24 2011 7:57AM
Subject: Re: tool to convert oral recording to text?
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Natalie
You're in charge of that.
I show up, you take care of transportation and accomodation correct?
If I have to cover any of that myself I won't be able to participate.
(seeing as I have 3 50 minute sessions, an hour session with the
teachers and a session with the Comp Sci track, I am definitely
pulling my weight in the program).
Let me know if there is any type of misunderstanding or if I have to
do something (I will correct the Southwest reservations next week, I
am in Nashville airport right now, coming back from a family vacation,
so have not had the time).
Thanks very much
-Birkir
On 6/20/11, John E Brandt < = EMAIL ADDRESS REMOVED = > wrote:
> At the Accessibility Unconference I attended last year there was a person
> representing a company that did speech-to-text (STT) transcription of video
> recordings. He claimed it was of fairly high quality but did indicate that
> human editing was required to ensure accuracy. In the conversations that
> followed, there was a general consensus that the technology to do accurate
> automatic STT transcriptions from video is still not there.
>
> Yes, Dragon Dictate does a reasonable job with one voice in a controlled
> environment, but I don't think it can do multiple voices in the same setting
> very well.
>
> My suggestion would be to hire a good transcriptionist like a CART person if
> you want an accurate STT transcript. The biggest advantage of the human
> being is that the human can stop the proceedings and ask people to repeat
> themselves when there is confusion or if multiple people are speaking.
>
> You will recall that IBM's Big Blue genius "Watson" could not respond to
> verbal content on Jeopardy....and IBM engineers were the ones who developed
> STT.
>
> John E. Brandt
> www.jebswebs.com
> = EMAIL ADDRESS REMOVED =
> 207-622-7937
> Augusta, Maine, USA
>
>
>
From: Ron Stewart
Date: Fri, Jun 24 2011 8:42AM
Subject: Re: tool to convert oral recording to text?
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Please take this off-line!
Ron Stewart