Testing Transcribing Audio
Ton Zijlstra,
Interdependent Thoughts,
Sept 24, 2021
Ton Zijlstra describes his experience testing otter.ai, an automated transcription tool to convert audio into text. He mentions a few other tools as well - Amberscript (a Dutch company) and Happyscribe (a French company), as well as MS Word. I would add to that list the transcription available in Google's audio recorder tool on the Pixel, which is what I normally use. This time, though, I tried otter.ai for myself, uploading and converting the audio from my talk last week. I had to do it in two installments, since I can only upload 40 minutes on the free tier. The quality overall was better than Google, but not by a lot. You can see the results here - the only change I made was to split the text into paragraphs - and compare with the actual audio and video here.
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