On popular demand, we have now launched a bulk download option in your account. You can now download your transcribed files in bulk and that too in 6 different formats which include Word, Adobe PDF, OpenDocument text, Plain text, SubRip Subtitle, WebVTT Subtitle.
Deep learning is a very exciting field to be part of right now. New model architectures, especially those trained with Graphics Processing Units (GPUs), have enabled machines to do everything from defeating the world’s best human Go players to composing “classical music”. We wanted to take advantage of its applications in speech and language modeling, and started with AWS G2 instances. We soon found that training even very simple models on a small portion of our data took days at a time, so we decided to build our own rig with specialized hardware. Continue reading “Building a Custom Deep Learning Rig”
In this day and age, more and more of what we are doing is becoming automated. One example would be banking. You don’t have to go to a bank anymore to deposit or transfer money. You can do that from an app or just log on to their website. Some banks don’t even have physical buildings. Human interaction and the component of business is becoming more and more limited. Continue reading “Speech Recognition Software Falls Short on Transcription”
Have you ever used Google Voice’s visual voicemail option? How about YouTube’s closed captioning service? If so, you’ve probably encountered a wildly inaccurate and hilarious transcript.
Rhett McLaughlin and James Lincoln, the comedy duo behind Rhett & Link, used this amusing side effect and turned it into a series of hilarious skits on YouTube.
The concept is similar to the Telephone Game. A message is passed from person to person until the original message is mostly unrecognizable.
Here’s what they did:
Step 1: Record a short script.
Step 2: Upload it to YouTube.
Step 3: Record a new video with the garbled transcripts that YouTube produced.
Step 4: Repeat.
The result is a funny and an incoherent message similar to that of the famous “Bad Lip Reading” videos.
These skits were filmed between 2011 and 2013 and demonstrate just how inaccurate Googles’ automatic transcription services used to be. Since then, Google’s automated voice transcription service has improved significantly – hence the reason the series eventually fizzled out.
Given these modest improvements, automated transcription services still pale in comparison to the level of accuracy that human transcription services, such as Scribie, can provide.
We believe the English language, in all its complexity, nuance, and beauty will never be completely mastered by artificial intelligence. And while this video is in jest, it’s an excellent example of why knowledge work will always require a human component to maintain quality assurance.
Looking to record a conversation, interview or business discussion? Forget the age-old voice recorder; rather grab your iPhone. There are loads of cool apps that ensure clarity, so that the final recorded file is easy to understand and transcribe. Here are the industry toppers:
Voice Recorder: Here is a really simple app that’s easy to understand and works great. What’s more, it also comes for free. It is also passcode protected, just in case you want to make sure your recordings are safe. The app is compatible with iOS 8. Use it to record and store unlimited number of recordings, add them to your favorite list for quick future reference, and for loop function.
Audio Recorder: While this app is also free and simple to use, it is definitely more versatile when compared to the Voice Recorder. Apart from recording your ‘piece’ you can email the file for easy sharing. The app also gives you the freedom to specify the format in which you would want to record or save the file.
Voice Record Pro: This free app takes the recording experience to a whole new level with its impressive import and export functionalities. You can easily access the Google Drive and Dropbox, among many others. What’s more, you could even post your recording as a movie clip on Facebook and YouTube. Cool, isn’t it? Apart from recording, you can attach notes and photos, and keep everything safe with the help of a passcode.
Super Notes: If you are ready to shell out a few dollars for a professional quality recording, here is the perfect app for you. Like most other apps in this category it offers superb recording features and clarity, and is cut out for any situation that you have in mind. What sets it apart is its ability to allow you to add notes and annotations to your recording while you are still at it.
Dictate + Connect (Dictamus): Compared to the other apps in this genre, this one is on the higher end of the price chart. But once you look at the features, you would know why. With this app on your side, you can actually forget all other recording devices. Apart from recording, you can even rewind and overwrite without hampering the audio quality. The app comes complete with instant dictation controls, barcode scanner, easy saving and sharing options, and more.
The world has moved light years ahead of traditional, run-of-the-mill voice recorders. However, before jumping on the digitised bandwagon you must ensure that the app you choose is of top quality. It is also indispensable if you are looking to transcribe the audio files. A good quality file does not only make the job of a transcriptionist easier, it also ensures that the transcription is error-free. That means less back and forth, less wastage of time, and optimum use of resources.
Got a file that you need transcribing? We can help. Contact us today for an accurate and affordable transcription service.
Scribie is pleased to announce the new reduced rates with faster turnarounds. We have been working hard to improve our transcription process and tools. With more efficient process and improve technology, we are able to pass on the benefit to our customers.
The following is a comparison of our old and new rates.
| Type | Old Rate | New Rate |
|---|---|---|
| Flex 30 | $0.80/min | $0.65/min |
| Flex 15 | N/A | $0.75/min |
| Flex 5 | $1.00/min | $0.85/min |
| 1 Day | $1.50/min | $1.00/min |
| Express | $3.00/min | $2.00/min |
The rush hour delivery is now @ $2/min with 8-12 hours turnaround. Now getting a file for an urgent report is not as costly as it was before. The efficient 4-step process that we follow, ensures that transcripts meet guaranteed quality standard.
The standard 1 day delivery is at $1.00/min. The turnaround is actually anytime between 24-36 hours. A good quality audio file will be delivered within 24 hrs while a tough file might need additional rounds of proofreading and hence more time.
The Flex 5 type is now $0.85/min. This was earlier the 5-7 day turnaround tier and called as Flexible Week. It is more suited to customers who do not have any urgent requirement for the transcripts and hence can save on the cost.
On popular demand, we are also introducing a new tier called Flex 15 for $0.75/minute. The delivery is guaranteed within a fortnight, but may also get delivered earlier at around 10 days provided we are able to slot it.
The 1 month turnaround is now called Flex 30 and is best suited for customers who might be working on long running projects and have some time left before they can start working with the transcripts.
The new pricing will benefit the customer both in terms of cost and turnaround time. Scribie is now faster, cheaper and the best in the industry in terms of quality. So start uploading your files now.
Click here for more details on pricing. Comments and feedback are most welcome.
The Integrated Editor is a one of a kind online transcription tool that only Scribie has to offer. We’ve touched on a few of its features in a previous blog and now we’ll continue to talk about more features that the Integrated Editor has to offer.
The Integrated Editor comes with a featured packed text editor that helps you while going over your files. You can click on a line in the text editor and it’ll take you to that point in the audio or vice versa.
The Integrated Editor also supports a variety of audio and video formats. Some the formats supported are mp3, wav, m4a, avi, flv, mp4, wmv, and mov. You don’t have to worry about whether your file will be supported as there are many types supported in the editor.
A fun feature included in the Integrated Editor is the multi-cursor. This allows you to select a word and change all occurrences of that word to another word. All you do is select a word, press CTL+ALT+G, which highlights all occurrences of that word, and simply type what change you want to make. It’ll change all occurrences to that new word.
Another feature that you’ll find in the Integrated Editor is text analysis. You can utilize this feature by clicking ‘Analysis’ at the top of the editor and the least common words and phrases or words not recognized by the editor in the document will be underlined. This allows you to go through your document for accuracy and cohesion. For further analysis, simply right click on a word to provide you with more options.
Want to learn more about the Integrated Editor? Simply click here to see all the features. Next time, we’ll discuss the last few features of the Integrated Editor in more detail.
If you’ve been keeping up with our posts, you know we’ve already introduced the Integrated editor, available only through Scribie. Here is the video which shows how to open the Editor. It’s a new, one of a kind tool that allows you to put the finishing touches on your transcription or helps you as a freelance transcriber with Scribie. Over the course of the next couple of posts, we’ll take a closer look at the features included with the Integrated editor.
For starters, the text editor provides a unified interface which means you no longer have to keep switching back and forth between the text and the audio. It’s all right there for you so you save time. Another time saving feature is the keyboard shortcuts. You’ll be given standard shortcuts like F7 for rewind and F10 for play, but you can also change and customise the shortcuts to suit your needs. Simply click the drop down arrow in the right of the editor, click shortcut preferences and check out the default list or make changes as you see fit.
There is also the feature of dictation, which is only available for Chrome. This allows you to save even more time by dictating your words instead of typing in the editor. You can select your speaking style and accent and then start dictating.
Other features include auto correct, auto save, and auto capitalisation. These features are similar to what you see in Microsoft Word. The Integrated editor will automatically correct commonly misspelled words, capitalise the first word of a sentence, and save your work after each keystroke so that even if your browser crashes, you can go back to right where you left off.
Live spell check is a feature that helps out with words that auto correct can’t identify. Similar to Word, these words will show up underlined in red and clicking on them will produce a drop down menu with suggestions for the word, add or ignore, Google search or the option to analyse the word.
These are just a few of the great features of the Integrated editor provided by Scribie. It’s a user friendly editor that also helps to save on time. For more information, check out the Integrated editor here. Stay tuned for more on the other features that the one and only Integrated editor from Scribie has to offer.
Studies show that online videos are much more than a passing fad. According to the B2B Demand Generation Benchmark Survey for 2012, more than 90 percent of the respondents prefer video over white papers, case studies, and even live demos with reps. In another study, Cisco predicts that 84 percent of the online content will be videos by 2018. While all these might sound super-exciting, it makes finding any content more difficult than ever. This is where video SEO can help. A video transcription is an integral part of such an SEO practice.
Transcriptions are a textual representation of all that is said in a video. Since a search engine only crawls texts and do not watch videos, a transcription helps it to understand the content and to index it. Also, the concept of SEO revolves around the use of keywords and hence using transcripts below your videos is a natural and effective way of increasing the keyword density of your website without running the risk of ‘keyword stuffing’.
A video transcription provides that extra mileage to your videos which meta description and video tags fail to offer. Plus, Google depends upon ‘blended results’ for determining a website’s search position. Blended results give more importance to videos. Transcriptions help to amplify this result. Studies show that transcriptions increase user engagement which in turn is rewarded by Google for having longer view times. The possibility of increased web traffic also enhances your income possibilities from AdSense.
You can also put your long-form transcripts on separate pages in order to target additional keywords. This is a great way to improve off-page SEO apart from providing internal cross linking opportunities. The content of transcripts can easily be repurposed into blogs, how-to articles, infographics and more depending upon its nature. It is hence a great source of derivative content.
In a study, Liveclicker compared 37 web pages before and after adding transcripts, and the results are quite inspiring. Pages with transcripts recorded 16 percent more revenue than when they had no transcripts at all. Video transcriptions also help to break the barrier especially when more than 80 percent of internet users do not have english as their native language. Hence if you are targeting a global audience, transcriptions must be an integral part of your marketing strategy.
Start uploading your video now for transcription.
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Transcription is an indispensable part of business. It helps in reporting, predictive analysis and much more. It also helps enhance business web presence. For perfect transcription many are using next generation technology to help them in entire process and to make transcription more flawless and accurate.
At Scribie, the motivation behind our service is to deliver perfectly transcribed files in most convenient and hassle free way. Continue reading “Next Generation Technology Aiding Transcription”