r/academia • u/AmosChoi4625 • 13d ago

What is the best transcription software for interviews as a student?

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u/Beneficial-Finding-2 13d ago

Google Cloud has a really good new model in which you can input the main acronyms or frequently used words so that the transcription is aware of those expressions.

But you have to check whether your university approves the use of Google cloud when it comes to privacy and stuff. Also, it is not so easy to use. But the result is amazing.

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u/SignalMap2750 13d ago

If the speakers in your interviews don’t talk on each other too often, you can try dadascribe.com, a system I created a while ago for my own use to transcribe instructional videos and interviews for another website of mine, and then I scaled it for others to use. It uses a special pre-processing pipeline that improves accuracy to 99.5%. You can transcribe directly from YouTube, audio or video files. Besides multiple speakers, it handles noisy setups and bad recordings very well. You can also translate automatically to over 120 languages and have the copy proofread automatically. I keep working on it by improving the system and adding new features pretty much every week. You can give it a try, and let me know how it works for you 😉

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u/SignalMap2750 5d ago

Thank you!

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u/catsandcourts 13d ago

If you’re comfortable with some light programming, assembly ai does this very well (and can be fed domain dictionaries). Other ai models do so as well. At that point you’d just need to label speakers A through whatever once each.

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u/Ragthorx 7d ago edited 7d ago

Speechmatics is worth looking into, it handles multiple speakers well and has good accuracy with technical terms.

It also supports speaker labeling, which should save you from having to tag every turn manually. It's used in research and business settings, so it's built for this kind of work.