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Re:Amazon Transcribe - Automatic speech recognition by ghaff on Wednesday November 29, 2017 @01:33PM (#15809451)
Even inexpensive human transcription works pretty well though assuming good audio and recordings that aren't difficult for other reasons (strong accents, etc.) I usually get my podcasts transcribed by a service that is basically a quality control front-end for Mechanical Turk and I need to do minimal cleanup.

I'll be interested to see how this works in comparison when it's more broadly available. I'm guessing it will be sufficiently worse that it won't be worth using for this purpose. If it's cheap enough though I could see using it for other recordings that I don't normally get transcribed today.

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Re:Amazon Transcribe - Automatic speech recognition by mkempe on Wednesday November 29, 2017 @01:42PM (#15809539)
Would you mind sharing which MT-based service you're using for podcast transcription?
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Re:Amazon Transcribe - Automatic speech recognition by ghaff on Wednesday November 29, 2017 @01:54PM (#15809647)
CastingWords. I've been very happy with them for my purposes. They tend to even get various CamelCase product spellings and the like correct even if I forget to put them in the transcriber notes. I usually get the 6-day $1.50/min service partly because I need the turnaround and partly because, anecdotally, the quality also goes up a bit when you pay for the premium rates. I do maybe a couple dozen 20 minute podcasts a year so the costs are negligible.
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Re:Amazon Transcribe - Automatic speech recognition by nmcfarl on Wednesday November 29, 2017 @11:32PM (#15813489)
Thanks for the plug, we love happy customers.

btw: We no longer use MTurk, we have our own crowd now.

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Re:Amazon Transcribe - Automatic speech recognition by mkempe on Wednesday November 29, 2017 @05:05PM (#15811318)
Thanks. I'm dealing with hours of interviews per day.
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Re:Amazon Transcribe - Automatic speech recognition by mslate on Monday December 04, 2017 @02:54PM (#15846857)
Can you share about your use-case? I have a very similar transcription need--feel free to contact me at my email in profile
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