Review of Free Speech-to-Text App: Features, Limitations, and Alternatives
Explore a free speech-to-text app with a 200MB file limit. Learn about its features, limitations, and why a paid app like Sonex might be a better choice.
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Cómo transcribir un audio MP3 a texto GRATIS Automático
Added on 09/05/2024
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Speaker 1: Good morning, good afternoon. Today I bring you a new transcription application, Speech-to-Text. It is totally free, in quotation marks, because it has a limitation of 200 megabytes to upload files, which is a program that can get you out of trouble. Remember that not all audios can be transcribed automatically, and that a human should always pass after the automatic transcription. Okay? In case you can, you will always have to review it. Done the reminder, let's get to the point. Well, I'm on the main page of this program. As always, you will find the link in the description to be able to access it quickly. First of all, what we have to come here, well, I'll explain a little bit. Here we have to choose the language. Okay, in this case we are going to put Spanish. Perfect. Here what we have is a picture with some keywords that we can use. For example, proper names, technical words, complicated words, so that the program itself can recognize it and be able to transcribe it correctly. And here we have the option, for example, to record the voice directly. What we are interested in is transcribing an audio in MP3. So we will click on Load Audio. Perfect, I already have an audio ready. I'm going to load it. Open. Very good. And now we see that it is transcribing the audio. We are going to leave it. I'm going to cut the video. And when I have already transcribed a considerable part of the audio, let's see how this transcription is. And I'm going to give my opinion about this program. Okay? Until now. Very good, we already have the transcription. First of all, let me explain to you that I forgot to tell you before that it is important that if there are several speakers, click on this box, okay? So that it detects the different speakers. If not, it will give you the transcript in running text. Okay? Once this is pointed out, explain to you that I have uploaded an audio of two speakers, of professional quality, because it is a television interview, by Jordi Évole. They are two speakers with very different accents. One is Spanish from Spain and the other is Spanish from Latin America. So it was quite easy for me to identify each speaker. And the truth is that the result is that it has identified the speakers well. It has had some recognition error, but that is normal. And the transcription, given the quality of the audio and the clarity of the accents of the speakers, the truth is that it has been a little low. But really, being a free option, I think that for specific moments it works very, very well. Very good. And here we have another tab that we can see each word in which second it is said. And then there are some that give us alternatives. In case this word is not correctly transcribed, we can see another possible alternative. Very good. Once this is seen, we would only have to download or copy the text. Basically, I have not found an option to download, so the option we have here is to copy it. So we will select the text, for example, right button, copy. And what we will do is come to Word. Very good. And here in Word we would only have to click on the right mouse button and hook the text. And here we would only have to give it the format that we need. In this case, for example, we are going to put a little more interlinear here. Perfect. And a justified. And we could work on it. We have already reached the end of the video. I'm going to give you my opinion about this application. The truth is that being free, you can not ask for more. But the transcription, the level of transcription is just because it was an audio that was very good. But in the end it can get you out of trouble. My recommendation is that if you have to transcribe a lot of audios, use an application like Sonex, which does have a cost, but the cost is very small. And in the end you have to decide whether you are going to spend money or time. And here it depends on you. Because it is not only the quality of the transcription that identifies the speakers well, but also the interface where you can work, the options that a payment application gives you. So much in shortcuts, so much that you make sure that the project will not be hung up here. In the end you can be transcribing an hour of audio and the window closes and the audio is gone. You have to start again. Apart from many more things. In the description I leave a link to a tutorial of Sonex so you can see the difference. And nothing else. So you already have a free option. Try it and tell me in the comments how it went. If you liked the video, leave us a like and subscribe to the channel. Greetings. Transcription by ESO. Translation by —

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