How is Word Transcribe Option 1 above different from Word Dictate? Upload a recording of your voice (or interview/meetings), perhaps from a digital voice recorder or a voice recording app on your smartphone.Record your voice (or interviews/meetings) and have that transcribed.By using Transcribe in Word you then have two options, either: The Microsoft blog details how Dictate can be used in Word to speak and see your voice converted to text in real-time.

In a Microsoft blog post released last week, 25th August 2020, they lay out the ins and outs of the new Word Transcribe functionality: Click the above image for the Microsoft Blog

Microsoft now joins Amazon with their AWS Transcribe, Philips with their SpeechLive and many others moving this technology from expensive installs on local devices to a cloud pay-as-you-go model. Same deal, speakers identified and proofing is easy before to paste the text into the Word document. Use a voice recorder or your smartphone to record yourself, a meeting or an interview and pass that to Transcribe to convert to text. When finished it will upload and then convert to text, identify the speakers and provide an easy to use proofreading panel. The recording can be paused if you take a break. You can record yourself speaking, your interview or your meeting directly to your PC or Mac. Microsoft Word Transcribe has two options to pass audio: Good work Microsoft, we like where you have been going the last few years. With such a huge cross-platform macOS and obviously Windows adoption of the Office suite, this is voice-to-text for the masses. Make no mistake, this is a game-changer for the Transcription industry and people who need quick and easy voice to text solutions.

… it is free (for now for up to 300 minutes of audio).

… you can do this on a Mac or a Windows PC.

… you can record a meeting or interview as it happens a convert the audio to text.

… you can automatically convert recorded interviews or meetings to text.

Yes, voices! Transcribe can convert speech to text for more than one speaking voices to text and it can identify those speakers, we have an example in the video below. Transcribe is essentially automatic transcription of voice or voices to text.

Microsoft via Office 365 has officially joined the speech recognition club by enabling the new “ Transcribe” function in Word.

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