

Free software in most cases only attempts to match spoken words to a dictionary and then transcribe them. The difference in accuracy between a free and paid transcription service can be significant. We haven’t seen a free transcription software that will differentiate voices. In this case, the software will automatically separate text from different speakers in the transcription. Many paid speech to text apps also have the ability to recognize when there are multiple speakers in a recording. These models will also enable the software to recognize accents that the algorithm would otherwise have difficulty transcribing.

You can use these models to help the platform cancel out noise and end up with a more accurate transcription. Google Cloud Speech-to-Text, a paid service, can recognize multiple speakers and includes punctuation in your transcription (Image credit: Google)Īnother benefit that some paid voice transcription software offers is the ability to read in custom speech and acoustics models.
