Monday, February 25, 2013

Google Service Audio to Text

Google services converts’ audio to text, translates multiple language text to desired language text and now Google translates voice inputs.

If you are tired of reading lengthy e Books, white paper or other information online than use Google services to read and listen to selected text. “SpeakIt” an indigenous Google service provides the facility to convert text to audio.

Is that means there are numerous other online services, application or software that can convert speech, voice or audio into text? We find many questions of this kind regularly on internet like:

• People are looking for speech recognition software, tools or applications for mobile devices.
• Business willing to add speech input capabilities to their applications using specific APIs.
• Way to upload audio files to Google Voice mail for auto transcription of audio files to text format.
• Search for software’s that will convert spoken word to audio file into text.
• Micro cassettes full of memos transcription to text formats.

Some of these services are available either by Google or by independent website and companies.

Now Google chrome 11 supports “HTML Speech input APIs” this will helps developers to integrate web apps with the ability to transcribe voice to text.

Some of the Audio to Text Conversion Resources available online are as follows:
• Voice reorganization software
• Audio Books
• Online Transcription Websites (with hybrid transcription procedures)
• Google Voice
• RWS
• Speech tot extservice
• Spoken Text Chrome Extension (For Chrome)
• Spoken Text Firefox Extension (For Firefox)
• Dragon Dictation
• E-Speaking’s Software
• Ultra Wave to Text Component
• Accurate Speech Recognition Software (Free)
• Dragon Naturally Speaking 11 Premium (paid)
• Dragon Dictate (paid)
• Windows Speech Recognition (with Windows Vista and Windows 7)

But if you run a business and need regular, precise and customize turnaround time on varied audio to text conversion and transcription needs than hiring professional transcription companies will be a wise decision. Only because they have much needed experience, expertise, customize software, security and privacy measures, tools and equipment with trained transcribers.

Lesley Dehn, Author and professional at Hi-Tech Transcription Services, India based Transcription Company with years of expertise and experience of over 17 years. Get exceptional results on online transcription service needs by experts of leading transcription companies at info@hitechtranscriptionservices.com

Tuesday, February 19, 2013

Audio Transcription

What is audio transcription?
In past audio transcription was carried out through mutual efforts of speaker and data typist or recorder. It was time consuming and tedious job to transcribe while a person is speaking and often required repetition. With the invention of new audio recording equipments it becomes a simple form of recording voice, audio, speech and then transcribing it to text format as and when needed. 

Spoken language to text transcription is most common format of audio transcription services are often outsourced for business, legal, educational, and health-care or medical purpose.As per Wikipedia audio transcription services is a business that coverts multiple audio, speech or voice format (either recorded on mediums like tape, cassette, CD/DVD, mini or micro cassette, or live) to text. 

Commonly Outsourced Audio Transcription Jobs, Includes:

• Audio files transcription
• Audio to text transcription
• Audio typing services
• Business dictation transcription
• Audio tapes transcription
• CD/DVD transcription services
• Digital, analog transcription
• Interview transcription
• Lectures transcription
• Legal dictation transcription
• Meeting transcription
• Court hearing proceeding transcription
• Criminal trial transcription
• Physician recorded transcription
• Event, speeches, seminar transcription
• Conference, phone call transcription
• WAV transcription
• Archival audio transcription
• Oral history transcription
• Voice to text transcription
• Academic material transcription
• And various other audio transcription jobs are outsourced

Why audio transcription outsourcing is needed?
Businesses often outsource audio transcription jobs to professional companies in order to seek accurate, fast audio transcripts at low prices. Advent of new technologies and need of data or information sharing it becomes very necessary to have transcripts of every recording regardless of formats on which they are recorded or volume of recordings.

Benefits of Employing Professionals for audio transcribing needs:
• Consistent accuracy on every transcript
• Assured accuracy and timely completion of project
• Quality ensured through proper proofreading and editing
• Access to latest technologies, experience manpower, tools
• Increased productivity and reduced cost
• Hassle free transcribing solutions
• Custom solutions with in budget and as per desired quality constraints
• Availability of services 365/24/7
• And various other tangible benefits depending on offshore transcribing partners

Audio Transcription Tools, Software, Apps available to enhance quality:

• Audio dictation software
• Audio transcription software Mac
• Speech to text software
• Audio translation software
• Speech recognition software
• Foot Pedal Software Player
• Audio transcription app
• Google audio transcription etc

As per industrial criteria and norms time taken to transcribe 15 minutes of audio transcription takes approximate 1 hour. There are many pricing structure to transcriber audio depending on audio quality, number of speakers, accents, language, complexity involved, background noise. Audio transcription rates could be per audio hour, words per minute test, and rates per minutes or project based.

Many transcription companies offer the facility to upload audio files through their secure ftp connections in order to get quick (turnaround time), high quality and affordable audio transcription services.

It’s important to find reliable and trusted offshore partner for hassle free audio transcription.

Lesley Dehn, Author and professional at Hi-Tech Transcription Services, India based Transcription Company with years of expertise and experience of over 17 years. Get exceptional results on online transcription service needs by experts of leading transcription companies at info@hitechtranscriptionservices.com

Friday, February 15, 2013

Earnings Call Transcription

What is Earning Call Transcript?

Multinational companies, organizations, business and business scholars use to discuss the financial performance of their business or simply share earnings per share to media through teleconference, call conference etc. Earning call discussions is accompanied by press announcements, business prediction and planning for the coming fiscal session or year.

All earning calls are recorded and transcribed by professionals, transcription companies in timely manner most preferably with in 24-48 hr of earning calls and than it is web cast, podcast or live streamed with captioning, time stamping and accurate transcripts of the earning calls. Earning call is transcribed to convey companies, business presentation and financial results to share holders, traders, and market.

Benefits of transcribing earning calls:

• It is an effective tool to announce public-ally
• To gain financial reporters, forecasters and blogs
• Getting reviews by posting earning call transcripts public-ally
• Inform public about company’s future ventures, inspiring people to invest
• Supply quick information
• Blogs and reporters can get direct quotes in writing
• Posting transcripts of earnings calls shows transparency of business

Important Points to Remember While Selecting Transcription Partner:

• Resourceful and expert transcribing company is must
• Accuracy and timely delivery of transcripts is needed
• Ability to supply fast, error free and customize services
• Meeting the deadline without failure is required
• Assured data security and privacy
• Ability to expand as per voluminous earning transcription project need

Many globally acclaimed business and financial transcription service providing companies are taking up outsource earning call transcription projects may prove helpful. Depth of knowledge, experience of multiple business transcription requirements say focus group, interviews transcription, business meeting, round table meeting transcription, conference call transcription, media transcription, workshop transcription will be added benefits ensuring quality and timely delivery of transcripts plus availability of adequate resources, equipments and workforce to satisfy outsource needs of any volume and complexity.

Lesley Dehn, author of this article whose company ranks as the largest, globally acclaimed transcription services providing company based in India with multiple centers across United States, UK and other parts of European nations says its affordable, safe and quick compared to others. Know more about Hi-Tech Transcription Services, inquire more on info@hitechtranscriptionservices.com

Tuesday, February 12, 2013

Transcription Software for Audio, Video – Efficiency, Cost

If you are looking for something to help you transcribe your audio, videos, recordings from various audio video formats to text automatically than you need to think again!

Is transcription software capable of transcribing audio to text by itself? No….

Software Available:
• Speech recognition software
• Audio translation software
• Speech to text software
• Audio transcription software Mac
• Audio dictation software
• Audio transcription software i Pad
• Audio transcription services
• Audio transcription software Linux
• Voice recognizing software
• Digital dictation software
• Telephone dictation software
• Internet dictation software
• Dictation work-flow management

Apart from the above listed software privately held companies also offer software like dragon dictation, Mac speech, or hybrid transcription platforms.

But the catch is, all or any software are build to enhance the transcription process and performance and are not capable of transcribing on its on. If a company or business is investing to buy a audio or video transcription software they need to invest time, efforts, and even cost to get familiar with it. Than also the out count cannot be relied totally!

Some common errors found by using audio or video transcription software:

• Incorrectly transcribed words/phrases
• Punctuation/sentence breaks
• Incorrect definition of paragraph breaks
• Constraint to transcribe some audio video formats only
• Platform intactness (cannot used on other platforms)
• Need specific devices and support to integrate
• Unable to transcribe heavy accents and utters
• Unable to identify more than one speaker
• Background noise, weak recordings, low volumes are neglected
• Not suitable for non-American accents
• Un-defined privacy statement and more

Converting audio, voice or speech needs powerful transcription services accompanied with customize transcription software, tools and advance transcribing equipments. A bend of experience, technology and expertise of various industrial transcribing needs is trusted, secure and cost-effective of getting audio transcribed for you.

Still we need to wait for a perfect transcription software which will be capable of transcribe on it’s on for us. Till that time hybrid approach of transcribing is best, efficient, accurate and effective to rely upon.

Lesley Dehn, Author and professional at Hi-Tech Transcription Services, India based Transcription Company with years of expertise and experience of over 17 years. Get exceptional results on online transcription service needs by experts of leading transcription companies at info@hitechtranscriptionservices.com

Wednesday, February 6, 2013

Cheaper English transcription services India

English transcription services are delivered by professional multiple language transcriptionists and transcribing companies who have years of experience and expertise in transcribing many language audio, video, voice, speech, voice recording, files, document, records to English.

Many Indian transcription companies had already developed skills and infrastructures to support these kind of outsource transcription projects from other language to English. Experience and capability to transcribe from many devices and formats at cheaper transcription services prices has been the USP of these transcription service providers.

Why Indian Companies are most proffered destination for outsource English transcription requirements from countries like United States, Canada, UK, Australia, France, Germany and other European nations?

• Trained team of in-house transcribers
• Knowledge and expertise to transcribe heavy accents
• Multiple quality assurance process
• Assures for guaranteed accuracy 98.99% plus
• Response time is very less
• Turnaround time is customize as per customer need
• Ability to transcribe bulk English transcribing needs
• Capability to transcribe multiple languages
• Offers complete data security and privacy
• Engage certified team of English transcribers

The best point of employing them is best English transcription services at cheaper transcription prices.
Apart from transcription services they are offering value added services like proofreading of transcripts, proofreading and editing, proofreading, editing and summarizing and English text to its phonetic transcription services.

English transcription services in India is effective and affordable for business, media, audio, medical, interview, general, and other type of transcribing needs in English to English, other language to English transcription.

Lesley Dehn, Author and professional at Hi-Tech Transcription Services, India based Transcription Company with years of expertise and experience of over 17 years. Get exceptional results on online transcription service needs by experts of leading transcription companies at info@hitechtranscriptionservices.com

Saturday, February 2, 2013

Transcription Services, Importance of New Transcription Equipments

Introduction of new technologies to increase the productivity and accelerate the business process used across all verticals of industry and to match the pace transcription industry need to get accustom of new transcription equipments, software, tools and methodologies that can play a big role in delivering the best transcription solutions to their customers.

Transcription Software - Advance transcription software is used by professional transcription companies to play widest variety of digital audio formats and files that can be integrated with foot pedal, screen buttons, hot keys and keyboards. They provide features like drag and drop of audio files, automatic loading and transcribing and saving files to desired audio and video formats. Access can be provided to this software through secure FTP, Email, and authentic network access.

Transcription Headsets and Headphones - Customize headsets for transcription of files from computers and audio tapes. Appropriate headsets and headphones are used to enhance the transcribing performance.

Dictation Equipments are finding there place in transcription industry as these instruments are must to get dictation from medical, health-care facilities, legal or law dictation, or other dictation to be transcribed by professionals further. These dictation equipments are Compatible with Byte scribe, Crescendo, VDI, Win scribe, Lanier, Dictaphone, Fusion, Atom, DVI and Voice and other devices, it can also directly integrated to telephone connections to speed up transcription process.

Digital recording systems are used to increase the efficiency of recording, quality of recording, frequency of response, digital file formats it supports like wav, dss, mp3, wma, compatibility with other transcription software, support for video files, size of memory, integration with computer interface, etc are some of the factors and feature checked by professionals before selecting quality recorders for their company.

Foot pedals, Mini and Micro Cassettes are some of the other commonly used equipments that are used to accelerate the transcribing procedures.

Lesley Dehn, Author and professional at Hi-Tech Transcription Services, India based Transcription Company with years of expertise and experience of over 17 years. Get exceptional results on online transcription service needs by experts of leading transcription companies at info@hitechtranscriptionservices.com