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Speech-to-text Apps

Hearing Loss | Last Active: Aug 14, 2019 | Replies (44)

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@billgebhardt

Has anyone tried a speech-to-text app? I have downloaded 3 of them and they all have a "wrong word" issue. Bill

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... and for those of you using Zoom, both Rev and Streamer now offer live captions for Zoom meetings and webinars. For Rev the speakers aren't identified, whereas with Streamer they are. Here's a link to the Streamer video showing you how it works. https://streamerlink.cc/Streamer-Zoom

@livingat45north, I just watched the video. At the beginning of the video, they show "Captioning is autogenerated by Streamer". So, it appears that Streamer can predict what will be said since the captions appear before the dialect. Am I missing something by their claim that "Captioning is autogenerated"?
Tony in Michigan

Hey, Bill. Unfortunately, all of the transcription apps are prone to errors, but they're still pretty great. I use both otter.ai and Google Live Transcribe regularly for conversation. I have given up on using them at doctor's visits, because of inaccuracies. I find that old school tech works best for that, so I bring a small dry erase whiteboard with me. Then the doctor can write down whatever they want to say to me. A lot of doctors offices have those on hand as a matter of course.

One thing that I don't think was mentioned is Google Meet. Meet will let you make video calls with captioning without having to pay a fee (like incorporating Streamer into Zoom). All you need is a free gmail account and then you can start a Meet call from your gmail.