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

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