#How to transcribe audio to text automatically for free trial#
We came across a lot of recommendations, and then using some of our interview recordings, took them all for trial runs to see what could be a long term solution.įrom there, we've narrowed things down to just a few options that we thought were the best, and the includes some very different types of solutions.
We decided to ask people what they're using, and check on tech sites and forums like Product Hunt and Reddit, to find out what the best options are. In short, it's a really bad workflow.Īs a result, we're always on the lookout for a good app that can solve this problem because it would make life a lot easier - in one instance where the volume of work was too high, we actually resorted to getting someone from to help transcribe a book's worth of research notes, but that's not a great solution if you are on a limited budget. There are a couple of obvious problems with this - for one, things like pausing and moving back and forward are needlessly complicated as you move between programs, and for another, controlling playback speed to suit your typing speed isn't easy either. Our normal workflow to deal with this has been to keep the audio file playing in QuickTime in the background, as we type in a text editor. We're not the only ones with this problem though - academics and researchers, students, and even people who attend a lot of meetings and need to keep everything organised would have ended up with a long transcription queue at some point of time or the other. As journalists, we spend a lot of time transcribing audio recordings into text that is then used for articles.