Monday, February 25, 2008

Can speech-recognition software transcribe interviews?

I am about to start a university research project involving in-depth interviews. I am aiming to download audio files of interviews to my computer from a digital audio recorder. I would then like to use software to turn the recorded voices into text. I need to do this on as low a budget as possible.

Rachel Elliott

You can't do this at any price: even humans still have problems transcribing interviews accurately. After more than 25 years development, Nuance's Dragon NaturallySpeaking software can turn speech into text, and it can handle digital files. But it only works well if you have a clean file (without much hiss or background noise), and if the user speaks clearly and carefully.

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