[Athen] Speech Rec for Mac & Scribing/Captioning services

[Saroj Primlani]

Automaticsync.com also offer a transcription service for which they take
three days and the cost runs around $1.50 an audio minute or $90 for an
hour.
Saroj


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> Date: Thu, 5 Apr 2007 16:29:28 -0600

> From: Howard Kramer <Howard.Kramer at Colorado.EDU>

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> Two questions - I've heard there is a speech recognition program (similar

> to

> Nat Speak) for the MAC. Does anyone know the name and how well it works?

> Is

> it part of the MAC operating system?

>

>

>

> Second question - Laurie Harrison mentioned a service that will caption or

> create transcripts. You can e-mail digital audio or multimedia files to

> them

> and they can process them within hours, according to Laurie. I thought it

> was called accuscribe but I could be wrong on that. ( I looked it up on

> the

> Web and I found a court transcribing service). If anyone either has

> Laurie's

> contact info or knows which service she is talking about, it would be much

> appreciated.

>

>

>

> Thanks,

>

> Howard

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> Date: Thu, 5 Apr 2007 16:40:49 -0600

> From: "Kilcommons,Cath" <cathk at cahs.colostate.edu>

> Subject: Re: [Athen] Speech Rec for Mac & Scribing/Captioning services

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> Hi Howard,

>

> iListen is the software for MAC.  Have not had a chance to play with it.

> Runs about $100.  What I've heard is that it is decent (but does not

> come close to Dragon).

>

> http://www.automaticsync.com/ is one of the services I have seen

> mentioned...

>

> Best,

> Cath

>

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>

>

> Two questions - I've heard there is a speech recognition program

> (similar to Nat Speak) for the MAC. Does anyone know the name and how

> well it works? Is it part of the MAC operating system?

>

>

>

> Second question - Laurie Harrison mentioned a service that will caption

> or create transcripts. You can e-mail digital audio or multimedia files

> to them and they can process them within hours, according to Laurie. I

> thought it was called accuscribe but I could be wrong on that. ( I

> looked it up on the Web and I found a court transcribing service). If

> anyone either has Laurie's contact info or knows which service she is

> talking about, it would be much appreciated.

>

>

>

> Thanks,

>

> Howard

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> Date: Thu, 5 Apr 2007 15:45:37 -0700

> From: "Terry Thompson" <tft at u.washington.edu>

> Subject: Re: [Athen] Speech Rec for Mac & Scribing/Captioning services

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> I think the service Laurie was probably referring to was CaptionSync, by a

> company called AutomaticSync:

> http://www.automaticsync.com/

>

> They're not able to create transcripts (at least not automatically), but

> if

> you have a transcript, you can upload that along with the multimedia file

> and they'll automatically time sync the transcript to the video, and send

> you caption files as an email attachment. This process actually takes only

> minutes, not hours - it's pretty impressive, and pretty accurate from my

> experience. They're using speech recognition to identify *when* something

> is

> being said, as long as they already know *what* is being said.

> Unfortunately

> speech recognition isn't yet accurate enough to reliably determine *what*

> is

> being said, so I'm reasonably sure there is no automatic transcription

> service yet.

>

> Terry

>

> Terry Thompson

> Technology Specialist, DO-IT

> University of Washington

> tft at u.washington.edu

> 206/221-4168

> http://www.washington.edu/doit

>

>

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> From: athen-bounces at athenpro.org [mailto:athen-bounces at athenpro.org] On

> Behalf Of Howard Kramer

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> To: athen at athenpro.org

> Subject: [Athen] Speech Rec for Mac & Scribing/Captioning services

>

>

>

> Two questions - I've heard there is a speech recognition program (similar

> to

> Nat Speak) for the MAC. Does anyone know the name and how well it works?

> Is

> it part of the MAC operating system?

>

>

>

> Second question - Laurie Harrison mentioned a service that will caption or

> create transcripts. You can e-mail digital audio or multimedia files to

> them

> and they can process them within hours, according to Laurie. I thought it

> was called accuscribe but I could be wrong on that. ( I looked it up on

> the

> Web and I found a court transcribing service). If anyone either has

> Laurie's

> contact info or knows which service she is talking about, it would be much

> appreciated.

>

>

>

> Thanks,

>

> Howard

>

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> Date: Thu, 5 Apr 2007 15:46:27 -0700

> From: "Ed. Rosenthal" <edward at ngtvoice.com>

> Subject: Re: [Athen] Speech Rec for Mac & Scribing/Captioning services

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> There is some speech recognition built into the Apple operating system,

> but

> it is not generally well received in the marketplace.  There are two

> companies that make speech recognition for the Apple operating system:

> MacSpeech (out of California)

> IBM's ViaVoice (through Nuance Communications)

>

> Generally, neither is of the same caliber or functionality as Dragon

> NaturallySpeaking but both have a substantial number of users.

>

> There are several services that I am aware of that can do captioning on an

> as needed basis.  Are you thinking of something that uses video relay or

> something different?

>

> Edward S. Rosenthal, ATACP Graduate

> President and CEO

> Next Generation Technologies Inc.

> 20006 Cedar Valley Rd. #101

> Lynnwood, WA 98036-6334

> Ph: 425-744-1100 ext. 15

> Fx: 425-778-5547

> Em: edward at ngtvoice.com

> URL: www.ngtvoice.com

>

> This document may have been generated using Dragon NaturallySpeaking

> Medical

> version 9.1 and/or handwriting recognition on a Motion LE1600 Tablet PC...

> please disregard remaining misrecognitions or unusual formatting.

>

>

>

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> From: athen-bounces at athenpro.org [mailto:athen-bounces at athenpro.org] On

> Behalf Of Howard Kramer

> Sent: Thursday, April 05, 2007 3:29 PM

> To: athen at athenpro.org

> Subject: [Athen] Speech Rec for Mac & Scribing/Captioning services

>

>

>

> Two questions - I've heard there is a speech recognition program (similar

> to

> Nat Speak) for the MAC. Does anyone know the name and how well it works?

> Is

> it part of the MAC operating system?

>

>

>

> Second question - Laurie Harrison mentioned a service that will caption or

> create transcripts. You can e-mail digital audio or multimedia files to

> them

> and they can process them within hours, according to Laurie. I thought it

> was called accuscribe but I could be wrong on that. ( I looked it up on

> the

> Web and I found a court transcribing service). If anyone either has

> Laurie's

> contact info or knows which service she is talking about, it would be much

> appreciated.

>

>

>

> Thanks,

>

> Howard

>

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