Digital Voice Recorders and Speech Recognition - Making Transcription Easy

May 24th, 2009 by Emerging Technologies

Digital voice recorders and speech recognition have made it possible for you to be able to not only dictate what you want but obtain a hard copy transcript with minimal fuss. It used to be that you would dictate using a tape deck or even the even further outdated short hand written out by a secretary and then have someone else translate or transcribe to create the script.

Those long and convoluted ways of dealing with getting what you want done on paper quickly with the minimum amount of hassle are over. You can now use speech recognition software and digital voice recorders to not only dictate but transcribe. There are thousands of people who make use of these tools on a daily basis to make business that much easier.

Consider this example, you are in a meeting with a large group of people, brainstorming or simply discussing the latest data on a project. You can easily record that information on a digital voice recorder and then hand it off to a transcriptionist who then uses a speech recognition program to listen then dictate what is heard producing a hard copy script of the information; you need in a matter of minutes instead of hours.

Transcriptions used to listen, type, pause, listen, type, pause at a rate of around 70-90 words a minute. The average person speaks more than 120 words a minute. This accounts for the length of time it takes to transcribe the data from a digital voice recorder into hardcopy. However, a person using a speech recognition program can process data at the rate of 120 words per minute with more 98% or better accuracy on the first time.

Using a digital voice recorder and a speech recognition program for your own notes has never been easier. Once you have trained your speech recognition program to your voice patterns you can simply set up the recorder to play back and watch your speech program save you time by transcribing you voice. All you need to do is make minor corrections standard with the use of any voice recognition program.

The invention of the digital voice recorder took people from time-consuming tapes to compact MP3s and made it possible to recorder voices clearly and distinctly something that was sometimes lacking on tape based recorders. This makes it possible for you to be able to use speech recognition software to transcribe what you have recorded.

The combination use of speech recognition and the digital voice recorder is something new however; it is something that is making its mark when it comes to time management and cost effectiveness. There is a great deal that can be said for the benefits of technology and the advent and increased use of speech recognition software and the digital recorder has gone a long way to increasing the benefits that technology brings across the board to any number of business, professional, personal and creative applications.