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Transcribing Interviews With Voice Software

Discussion in 'Other PC Software' started by chrisw, 2011/12/12.

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    chrisw

    chrisw Inactive Thread Starter

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    My daughter's a science journalist and does many interviews. It would be helpful if she could get those interviews into hard copy with something like Dragon instead of her typing everything. A few years ago she tried using a voice recorder followed by Dragon, but Dragon couldn't handle the fidelity nor two people talking back and forth. Ideally, even the recorder shouldn't be needed, just talk directly into the laptop. Anyone know anything out there that might work?
     
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    Steve R Jones

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    I'm guessing you've Googled the heck out of "Voice to Text "....

    I just spent a few minutes reading on the subject and found what you probably already know:

    "As is made all too clear, this technology is far from perfect. People speak too differently, in everything from speed to accent to pronunciation of certain letters, and creating a technology that works for all of them is an incredibly tall order. "

    The rest of the interesting article that was written two years ago:
    Does voice-to-text technology actually work?
    http://venturebeat.com/2009/12/30/does-voice-to-text-technology-actually-work/
     
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    wildfire

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    Some time in the future maybe, but as Steve has pointed out voice recognition is far from perfect. See Scottish iPhone users are lost in translation as an example.

    It would appear your daughter has to do things old style.
     
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    chrisw

    chrisw Inactive Thread Starter

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    Steve, wildfire...yes, I'm aware of all that, but there have been some advances recently. I'm hoping someone here (with the same problem) has been able to "jerry-rig" a solution.
     
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    This issue of voice recognition has been going on since the early '80's. Yes massive advances have been made since then but seriously "jerry-rig ". Don't you think if anyone had they'd have made a fortune by now rather than give it away free on a forum?
     
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    Speech Recognition

    I use Microsoft Windows XP and Windows 7, they have Speech Recognition programs in the control panel.You can also change the recognition languages.I used this program for college essays when I had hand surgery. It works quite well with a microphone. Proof reading is necessary, but over all it is pretty good. It is more difficult though if she is using it for the interviewees spoken words after she records them, as the program learns to recognize the users spoken words after the user reads many sentences.
     
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    Arie

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    The point is that current voice recognition is developed to 'recognize' one user. You are suppose to 'train' the recognition software so that it correctly 'interprets' your voice. It isn't made to work like you would want to use it.
     
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    TonyT

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    Workaround would be to use 2 separate computers and 2 separate mics, one for each person in the interview. Cumbersome, and switching mics on/off would be necessary.
     
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    Steve R Jones

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    chrisw

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    As per terschei, it's my impression the technology is getting better fast. But it can't deal with the 2 person problem very well, as per Arie. And as Tony says, his workaround is clumsy. My suggestion was for my daughter to act as a translator, converting the conversation on a recorder to her one voice into Dragon...but that's clumsy (extra step) too.
     
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