<div dir="ltr"><div><div><div><div>Hi Marcia,<br></div>The ARC Centre of Excellence for the Dynamics of Language (<a href="http://www.dynamicsoflanguage.edu.au">www.dynamicsoflanguage.edu.au</a>) is trying to develop software to speed up the linguistic transcription of audio (generally of endangered languages).<br>This is quite a challenge, but if you're interested in tracking developments, sign up for the newsletter at the bottom of the homepage. <br><br></div>You could also consider getting in touch with Appen, an industry partner to the Centre of Excellence: <a href="http://www.appen.com/solutions/language-technology/speech-recognition-trainingdata/">http://www.appen.com/solutions/language-technology/speech-recognition-trainingdata/</a><br><br></div>Cheers,<br></div>Piers<br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, May 9, 2015 at 8:43 AM, Kerim Friedman <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:oxusnet@gmail.com" target="_blank">oxusnet@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">It seems that the NSA has such software!<br>
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<a href="https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2015/05/05/nsa-speech-recognition-snowden-searchable-text/" target="_blank">https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2015/05/05/nsa-speech-recognition-snowden-searchable-text/</a><br>
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"Top-secret documents from the archive of former NSA contractor Edward<br>
Snowden show the National Security Agency can now automatically<br>
recognize the content within phone calls by creating rough transcripts<br>
and phonetic representations that can be easily searched and stored.<br>
<br>
The documents show NSA analysts celebrating the development of what<br>
they called “Google for Voice” nearly a decade ago."<br>
<br>
A version of this is available commercially, but I get the sense that<br>
it is priced for larger multinational corporations...<br>
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<a href="http://www.raytheon.com/capabilities/products/bms/" target="_blank">http://www.raytheon.com/capabilities/products/bms/</a><br>
<br>
Kerim<br>
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On Sat, May 9, 2015 at 4:58 AM, Marcia Farr <<a href="mailto:farrmarcia@gmail.com">farrmarcia@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
> I am interested to know if any software out there can transcribe audio<br>
> recordings. I've thought of Dragon Naturally Speaking (although that's<br>
> primarily for dictation), but don't know if this is the best choice or even<br>
> if it works in this respect.<br>
><br>
> Having a person transcribe digital sound files in English pr Spanish or<br>
> Code-Switching is extraordinarily expensive and/or time-consuming. Is there<br>
> any software that can help in this process?<br>
><br>
> I apologize if this has been asked before. If so, I can't remember what we<br>
> came up with! I would be happy to post a summary to the list.<br>
><br>
> --<br>
> Marcia Elizabeth Farr<br>
> Professor Emerita<br>
> The Ohio State University<br>
><br>
> Email: <a href="mailto:farr.18@osu.edu">farr.18@osu.edu</a><br>
><br>
> <a href="http://osu.academia.edu/MarciaFarr" target="_blank">http://osu.academia.edu/MarciaFarr</a><br>
><br>
><br>
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