[Linganth] [External] Re: suggestions on transcription software?

[Kratz, Corinne]

Hi, Charles.  I've used Dragon for tapes in English that were basically verbal notes in exhibitions about design communication. It is quite rough, but the program trains as it goes and does improve. Transcripts take a lot of cleaning up and correcting, but is much faster to work from even a flawed transcript.

A couple of days ago I was emailing with Vox for a full transcript of an interview between Jamil Smith and Bryan Stevenson about the newly expanded Legacy Museum exhibits in Montgomery.  So I just asked the Vox folks what they use to produce transcriptions of their podcasts. They use sites that are either subscription-based or charge by the minute. Their reply is below

Best to all,
Cory

Hi Corinne,

We use the web site trint.com<https://nam11.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Ftrint.com%2F&data=04%7C01%7Cckratz%40emory.edu%7Cad807e07c36544f6297908d99401eaca%7Ce004fb9cb0a4424fbcd0322606d5df38%7C0%7C0%7C637703558245598297%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C1000&sdata=KEh%2BNtXzPztN3MZu%2FLF1zQNeY9VDlTasldrzrRtqBOo%3D&reserved=0>, or rev.com<https://nam11.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Frev.com%2F&data=04%7C01%7Cckratz%40emory.edu%7Cad807e07c36544f6297908d99401eaca%7Ce004fb9cb0a4424fbcd0322606d5df38%7C0%7C0%7C637703558245608260%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C1000&sdata=MSCacrqKzRogCIvTtY3mKCYzC5jTQSAEfuN4kbSZMH0%3D&reserved=0> to produce transcriptions. There may be less expensive but less accurate options out there, like otter.ai<https://nam11.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fotter.ai%2F&data=04%7C01%7Cckratz%40emory.edu%7Cad807e07c36544f6297908d99401eaca%7Ce004fb9cb0a4424fbcd0322606d5df38%7C0%7C0%7C637703558245608260%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C1000&sdata=BX3XoiXL1ylhQ4O25pzkUhT41WHOb45gIcIgmsFwIh0%3D&reserved=0>, which I can't really speak to.

All our best,
--Erikk


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From: Linganth <linganth-bounces at listserv.linguistlist.org> On Behalf Of Michele Koven
Sent: October 20, 2021 7:18 AM
To: Charles Briggs <clbriggs at berkeley.edu>
Cc: linganth at listserv.linguistlist.org
Subject: [External] Re: [Linganth] suggestions on transcription software?

Hi all,

For a first pass, I use Happy Scribe. They have a decent range of non-English languages. The transcript will still need a lot of clean up, but will give you a first pass. I have used otter but I believe it only works for English.

On Wed, Oct 20, 2021 at 8:07 AM Charles Briggs <clbriggs at berkeley.edu<mailto:clbriggs at berkeley.edu>> wrote:
Hi, friends,

Might you have suggestions as to which software works best for getting
an initial rough transcription of recorded speech? I'm drowning in
mountains of recordings.

Thanks and best to all,

Charles

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