▲ ▼ Automatic transcript for podcasts with search
Podcasts are an antidote to noise filled, cognitive bias fuelling on-screen media. But, there are limitations to consuming information from audio; searching and retrieving information from a podcast are full of hurdles, audio only podcasts are out of reach for people with hearing disabilities and other accessibility issues.
Considering the state of current speech recognition, audio processing; I would like a podcast app where transcript are generated in real-time and showcased like how lyrics are displayed in the music streaming apps with ability to search over podcast's transcript at any time.
There are few services which offer transcript for podcasts, but aren't real-time and require payments to be made for each episodes.
P.S. Android has live transcribe feature for any audio, but including transcript within a podcast app would be frictionless and could provide historical search features.
Hi! Check https://speechtext.ai . It is one of the best software for podcasters to transcribe their podcasts that I found. It has the similar accuracy as Google (even better), supports 30 languages and popular non-native accents. Price starts from $0.05 per minute.
Good to know, Whose API do you use for transcription? Considered building a podcast app which automatically generates transcripts for any podcasts?
Bullhorn (https://www.bullhorn.fm/) podcast app is providing automated transcription of all podcasts in its app essentially addressing this problem, but since it has call-in to listen feature; it doesn't seem to be available in all countries. Also, since the transcription is automated it's not error free and so there is a need gap for accurate transcription.
Hi,
You can try for free this solution to test if it's fit on your need: http://vatis.tech/
Demo seems neat, how does it compare to Google Speech-to-Text? Especially considering their solution is ~ $1.5/60mins after the first 60 mins free.
Google cloud has Speech-to-Text API - https://cloud.google.com/speech-to-text/ and Android app using it for Live Transcribe has been open sourced - https://github.com/google/live-transcribe-speech-engine.