Kraut wrote: Voscribe: Free Transcript Tool (audio-text) Send your audio file to get a free
editable transcript with 95% precision in 2 minutes.
https://www.voscribe.com/free-tools/free-transcriptWith AI improvements, we believe that basic automatic transcription should be free. People that want basic subtitle or basic transcript of a video/audio should not have to pay 1 cent to get it
I tried your link with 2 mp3's I had saved from a Radio France International newscast in Spanish and Portuguese. The audios were around 3 minutes in length.
Pros:
It got the newscast 100% but completely missed the introduction. It missed an audio comment from a subject. Then, when the newscaster returned, it picked right back with an accurate transcript.
It got Chinese place names and personal names accurately. It got world cities correctly. It dealt fine with Latin American Spanish and Brazilian Portuguese. The transcript follows the audio with the word being spoken highlighted as the audio proceeds. The link you gave works.
Cons:
To go beyond 10 minutes, it is $9.00 US a month or $108 US per year. I signed up but not to pay for it- I haven't needed transcripts for Spanish/Portuguese in years. Though I signed up for an account. It doesn't recognize my username/password- though it tells me I already have an account if I try to sign up again.
The website doesn't say which 20 languages are covered by the service. Of course, it's probably FIGS plus definitely Portuguese... but I can't easily find that information on the website.
I haven't tried it with natural speech yet, so I can't testify to how it handles it. If I were still learning a FIGS language, this would be huge and probably worth the $9.00 US a month they charge to train listening.
I've always recommended working with the news in audio (especially if you already know what's going on in your native language) and an accurate transcript in order to train listening. The problem is that there are few sites that have this available- "NHK Radio Portuguese/Spanish" and "Democracy Now en Español" come to mind. I tried it with an old audio story I had in Portuguese and it handled all the speakers only missing one brief sentence in the three minute audio. I can see this being very useful for learners to train listening, at least in the two languages I tried.
Of course it means learners will have to do some work- download mp3's to a file; edit them to under 10 minutes in length if too long; learn what platforms will accept an srt file and how to do time stamps, etc. Still, it appears as if it will be useful.
Perhaps the issues I've experienced are just a glitch or it takes time to get registered in the system. There doesn't seem to be a link on the site to the 10 minute free audio- at least I can't find it. If I hit the back button, it goes to the sign-up page.
I must admit, I am impressed with what it
can do, for free... at least so far.
I just tried Russian and Catalan- nope. Seems to work with French and Italian in the mp3's that I had. I guess it will take a while to get around to Haitian Creole, Sranan Tongo, and Ladino
Thanks, Kraut. You should post about this to the general discussion forum room.
