Transcribing the audio of an interview, lectures, voice notes, conferences or others, takes a lot of time and can become tedious, not to mention that there may be margins of error when translating audio to written words. But nowadays there are different tools with Artificial Intelligence (AI) that perform this kind of tasks for us. That said, here are 10 tools with which you can easily get audio-to-text transcriptions:
Amazon Transcribe is an automatic speech recognition platform that is primarily aimed at businesses. It is dedicated to transcribing calls, real-time conversations, generating subtitles and transcribing multimedia files. It features automatic language and speaker identification, personalized vocabulary, conversation information, customer data protection, dictation and more.
The tool has a one-year free trial, where up to 60 minutes of audio can be transcribed per month, and then moves to the following rates:
One of the tools that Contents offers is its audio to text converter, which manages to differentiate itself from others because it not only allows us to load an audio file to create a text, but also allows us to do the opposite, that is to say, we can also convert a text into an audio.
It has a very simple interface where it only shows the option to load the file we want to transcribe, the language we want to work with, the type of voice (in case it is text to audio) and the format of the written file. To use it you can access a 7-day free version. It also has other plans: the basic one for $7 and 2,000 credits per month; the intermediate one for $27 per month, 1 user and unlimited credits; the advanced one for $69 with 5 users and unlimited credits; and, finally, a customized plan.
Deepgram is a comprehensive AI transcription base that has several functions that make it have a more specific understanding of language and expressions and can be used during live chats, with pre-recorded audio or video. The user can assign keywords to pay attention to, activate profanity filtering, detect voice activity to prevent pauses from affecting the text, and divide information by paragraphs. In addition, the tool has other features that help to obtain a very accurate wording compared to others.
It can also summarize the most important parts of any audio to save time.
It offers 12,000 free minutes to start with, but then different packages can be added depending on the user’s needs. You have the option to “pay as you go”, the Growth plan ($4,000 – $10,000) and the Exclusive plan which is for large volume enterprises.
This application allows not only to obtain audio-to-text transcriptions, but also works as a voice control and provides interactive voice response (IVR) in customer service systems. It also takes dictations, even when there is external noise, and can recognize the different channels that emit audio to take into account only the one that interests the user.
Google Speech-to-Text information is stored in the Google Cloud. New users receive $300 to use it and all customers get 60 minutes per month free to transcribe and analyze audio.
This AI tool was designed to recognize and interpret natural language, either by loading an audio file (which can be of low quality) or by doing voice dictation. Something that sets it apart from others is that it is dedicated to customer service companies and also works as a virtual assistant for processing and searching information. It allows fast voice transcription in multiple languages.
You can transcribe 500 minutes per month for free. Then, it has several plans tailored to the customer’s needs.
iSpeech is used to convert text to audio and vice versa. It has a box where we can paste the text we want to say, select the language and press play.
It is a very simple tool to use and has a free mode that limits the number of characters and places a message at the end of the conversion to audio indicating that the service was used. It is also able to recognize the voice and generate a text from it.
This tool lets you transcribe audio into text in more than 100 languages quickly and accurately. It also allows you to convert text to audio and translate speech. One of its most outstanding features is that it allows the user to add specific words to their vocabulary to be recognized in future transcriptions, voice translation, storage of the information in the cloud or in other containers within reach and speaker recognition.
Fees depend on the type of service needed.
Microsoft Translator is an automatic translation service with which you can translate conversations in real time, as well as writings found on street signs or simply documents that you have on your device.
The aim of the tool is to break down language barriers. It offers a plan for personal use, one for commercial use and one for educational purposes. It integrates with platforms such as Skype, some browsers and other mobile applications.
Es una compañía dedicada al reconocimiento de voz y al procesamiento del lenguaje natural mediante Inteligencia Artificial. Tiene la capacidad de convertir conversaciones en textos de forma automática y es conocida por desarrollar Siri, el asistente de voz de Apple.
Una de sus creaciones más relevantes ha sido Dragon Profesional, herramienta pensada para que los médicos puedan realizar un dictado de voz y transcribir documentos clínicos. El software tiene un costo de 999€ euros.
It is a company dedicated to voice recognition and natural language processing through Artificial Intelligence. It has the ability to convert conversations into texts automatically. This company is known for developing Siri, Apple’s voice assistant.
One of its most relevant creations has been Dragon Professional v16, a tool designed for doctors to perform voice dictation and transcribe clinical documents. A license to use this software costs $699 euros.
If you have many important videoconferences, this tool can be your savior since it is dedicated to take voice dictation in real time to convert it to text, but it focuses on doing it during Zoom meetings, Google Meet and other similar platforms. In addition, Otter.ai also records and allows you to play back conversations after the call ends, identify the participants of the conversation and search the text of transcribed recordings.
It has a free basic plan in which you can make a maximum of 300 transcriptions per month, 30 minutes of conversation. Then it has three payment plans: Pro ($9,17/month), Business ($20/month) and finally, Enterprise, which to get it you have to contact the company.
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This tool, popular in LATAM and Spain, offers automatic audio and video transcriptions with AI. It achieves an accuracy of over 95% in good quality audio and also allows creating subtitles for videos and exporting them in SRT or VTT, among other formats.
Automatic transcriptions can be made in more than 30 languages, which can be edited and shared with other users with a few clicks. Prices for this tool range from $29 per hour, to $45 for a monthly subscription that allows 3 hours of automatic transcription or subtitling per month. It also has a desktop application, called ScriptMe Lite, which offers free and unlimited transcriptions on Windows PC and Mac.
Whisper, a tool belonging to the company that created ChatGPT, is an open source automatic speech recognition system that can transcribe audio to text. It has been trained with 680,000 hours of data in different languages, which allows it to transcribe in several languages and even translate them into English.
Once the audio file is uploaded, its artificial intelligence will analyze it and transcribe it into words to save you work. Unlike other free tools, Whisper is more reliable and even with errors it is more efficient than most.
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