Transcribing Podcasts to digital text

When we fed a recording of a guest speaker (a local judge) into Dragon Naturally Speaking without first training the program, we got unusable results, including a phrase that was transcribed as "bizzaro constitutionalism"!

We considered asking all our speakers to first read the "training" paragraph so we could get better results from Dragon, but decided such a request was a bit bizzaro.

You *could* try using Google Voice's transcription service by sending yourself a voice mail!?!

We use Accentance for transcriptions - basically $1.35 per minute - very happy with the results and turn-around time.

http://accentance.com/transcription.htm

- Earl

Earl A. Daniels, Web Coordinator
Georgia State University College of Law
EarlDaniels@gsu.edu | 404-413-9110
Urban Life Building, Room 636
140 Decatur Street,
Atlanta, Georgia 30303
http://law.gsu.edu

>>> "Urrea, Nick" <urrean@uchastings.edu> 1/5/2010 2:56 PM >>>
I am wondering about the ability of transcribing podcasts to digital
text (doc, pdf, html, etc.).

How far has the technology come?

What are your experiences with creating digital documents out of
podcasts from lectures/classes for students to use?

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Nicholas Urrea

Information Technology

UC Hastings College of the Law

urrean@uchastings.edu

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Nick,

I just got a copy of Dragon Natural Speak 10 and have played with it a little bit. My plan is to use it to transcribe the class I am teaching online this semester, and offer that as class notes to students. My experience so far with it is a good one. It does make some mistakes, but overall, the result is tolerable. One thing I noticed about this program is that if you transcribe from a podcast or sound file, it does not input punctuation marks, such as period, comma, or other marks. When you dictate to the program, you can ask it to put comma, period, etc to your sentence.

Don Zhou
William Mitchell College of Law

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I am wondering about the ability of transcribing podcasts to digital text (doc, pdf, html, etc.).
How far has the technology come?
What are your experiences with creating digital documents out of podcasts from lectures/classes for students to use?

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Nicholas Urrea
Information Technology
UC Hastings College of the Law
urrean@uchastings.edu
x4718

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