Transcription, a service whereby audio is listened to by a real person and physically typed, is now under pressure from new technology created by Amazon called AWS Transcribe an Automated Speech Recognition (ASR) service. #UPDATE# September 2020. Microsoft also disrupts by adding the Transcribe function to Word via office.com which converts single or multi (meetings/interviews) … read more
** This post was originally written in 2017. ** UPDATE September 2020: Microsoft release the Transcribe feature in Word online for Mac and PC, here is the post: dictat.es/word-transcribe Voice recognition or voice-to-text isn’t anything new, it has been around for years made by a company called Nuance in the form of Dragon NaturallySpeaking. Recently … read more
Olympus have just released worldwide a new set of RecMic (hand held, USB connected) microphones for use with Dragon’s speech recognition software. Of the five models released worldwide only these three will be available in Australia: Olympus RM-4100S – Optical Slide Switch + Clickable Trackball + 4 Programmable Buttons Olympus RM-4100S – Optical Slide Switch … read more