Question 1

What are the best audio to text converters?

Accepted Answer

Leaders of voice recognition technology include Google, IBM, Amazon and Microsoft. Google provides the highest quality of speech recognition: for the most popular languages such as English, Spanish, Chinese or French, recognition accuracy is 90-95%. The Kukarella platform gives users easy access to converters from Google and IBM.

Question 2

What file types are supported by speech to text software?

Accepted Answer

The Kukarella voice to text converter supports all popular audio formats (including mp3 and wav), transcribes audio tracks from all types of videos, and allows you to convert audio from YouTube and Vimeo. Kukarella also transcribes speech in real time and is able to recognize multiple speakers.

Question 3

How do I transcribe voice to text?

Accepted Answer

Select what you'd like to transcribe: an audio/video file, YouTube or Vimeo, or live speech recording;
Start uploading the file or recording of your voice;
Click the 'Convert' button;
Success! Read, download, and share your new transcription;
The generated transcription will be saved in your files.

Question 4

How is automatic transcription better than manual?

Accepted Answer

Automatic transcription allows you to convert voice to text with high accuracy (usually - 90-95%); in real time (for recordings) or twice as fast as manual transcription (for uploaded files); for a really competitive fee ($0.06-0.08 per one minute of audio). It also guarantees full privacy, since nobody except you will see the text or listen to your audio.

Question 5

Why does audio transcription fail sometimes?

Accepted Answer

Quite often audio recognition may be inaccurate or even fail to detect any speech. This can be for a number of reasons, such as low volume, background noise, and audio distortion. A good rule of thumb is this: if Siri, Alexa, or Google Assistant on your phone can understand what is being said in an audio recording, then the transcription service should also understand that.
In order to get the transcription to give its best results, please try the following things:
- use a high quality recording with less background noise and a clear voice.
- try editing the recording to reduce noise and increase it’s speaking volume using programs such as Audacity (free) or Adobe Audition (paid).
- you can also try selecting “1 Speaker”, as sometimes it can have better results than multiple speakers.