[Linganth] Software that Transcribes

[Kerim Friedman]

It seems that the NSA has such software!

https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2015/05/05/nsa-speech-recognition-snowden-searchable-text/

"Top-secret documents from the archive of former NSA contractor Edward
Snowden show the National Security Agency can now automatically
recognize the content within phone calls by creating rough transcripts
and phonetic representations that can be easily searched and stored.

The documents show NSA analysts celebrating the development of what
they called “Google for Voice” nearly a decade ago."

A version of this is available commercially, but I get the sense that
it is priced for larger multinational corporations...

http://www.raytheon.com/capabilities/products/bms/

Kerim

On Sat, May 9, 2015 at 4:58 AM, Marcia Farr <farrmarcia at gmail.com> wrote:
> I am interested to know if any software out there can transcribe audio
> recordings. I've thought of Dragon Naturally Speaking (although that's
> primarily for dictation), but don't know if this is the best choice or even
> if it works in this respect.
>
> Having a person transcribe digital sound files in English pr Spanish or
> Code-Switching is extraordinarily expensive and/or time-consuming. Is there
> any software that can help in this process?
>
> I apologize if this has been asked before. If so, I can't remember what we
> came up with! I would be happy to post a summary to the list.
>
> --
> Marcia Elizabeth Farr
> Professor Emerita
> The Ohio State University
>
> Email: farr.18 at osu.edu
>
> http://osu.academia.edu/MarciaFarr
>
>
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P. Kerim Friedman 傅可恩

Associate Professor
The Department of Ethnic Relations and Cultures
College of Indigenous Studies
National DongHwa University, TAIWAN
副教授國立東華大學族群關係與文化學系