For journalists, ‘transcription’ is one of the tedious but essential tasks. Nowadays, many reporters record in the field through audio or video. We introduce four ways to transcribe these recordings quickly and easily.
Otter
Otter is a speech-to-text application developed by a technology company in California. The strength of Otter is that it can transcribe in real-time. The basic plan, which is for free, offers to transcribe 300 minutes of recordings a month. Paid plans allow you to extend options such as recording time, maximum time per conversation, and playback speed.
Whisper
Whisper is an automatic speech recognition (ASR) model developed by OpenAi. It can recognise voices in multiple languages and translate them. It is available for free. It can be used simply by a few lines of code through programs that can execute codes, such as Google Collaboratory and Jupyter Notebook.
Adobe Premiere Pro
If you are already a subscriber to Adobe Creative Cloud, you can use the transcription feature of Adobe Premiere Pro. Adobe Premiere Pro provides ‘transcribe sequence’ as one of the features of ‘Captions and Graphics’. You can get a transcription of the imported video or audio file in languages such as English, Chinese, French, or Hindi.
ClovaNote
ClovaNote is an application provided by Naver, a Korean search engine company. Uploading recording files is limited to 300 minutes per month, but you can transcribe an unlimited number of recordings using the app. It provides transcription services in English, Korean, Japanese and Chinese. It is free of charge for now because it is during the trial period, but Naver ID is required.