Amazon Transcribe - Automatic speech recognition

Re:Amazon Transcribe - Automatic speech recognition by wpietri on Wednesday November 29, 2017 @01:28PM (#15809395)

Wow! Circa $1.50 hour. Whereas human transcription services are more like $45 per hour.

This kind of price will open up entirely new applications. E.g., for ~$10/day, you could transcribe every conversation you have at work. Combine that with good search and your phone becomes a supplemental, artificial memory. "I know I talked about that with somebody but I can't remember who" becomes a thing of the past.

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Re:Amazon Transcribe - Automatic speech recognition by zerostar07 on Wednesday November 29, 2017 @01:31PM (#15809441)

I thought you were going to say that the human translator would use the service , add his own surcharge of $30 and still be cheaper than the competition :)

seriously this will sell like crazy to public offices and services that keep transcripts of conversations, courts of law etc.

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Re:Amazon Transcribe - Automatic speech recognition by wpietri on Wednesday November 29, 2017 @01:34PM (#15809460)

I'm sure that will happen. Automating a first pass and saving the humans for the second, smarter pass will be a great combination. Higher quality, lower cost.

But that's only if you care about human-readable quality. I'm especially interested in the applications where we don't.

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