While looking at some information about Dragon Naturally Speaking today I
came across an add-on which claims to be able to transcribe 4 voices as
part of the same recording without needing separate profiles for each
voice. It's part of KnowBrainer and is called UniVoice. I wonder has anyone
used it? It was released last autumn.
<https://www.knowbrainer.com/storefront/index.cfm?fuseaction=category.display&category_id=19&CFID=686607&CFTOKEN=21813192&jsessionid=a0301948511174408439795>
This could be incredibly useful for transcribing interviews and focus
groups if the number could be increased.
There's a bit of text on the forum (to which you have to subscribe to read):
"Having 4 people read a hundred words each into NaturallySpeaking hardly
constitutes a serious test but we were not looking for a weekend project.
We simply wanted to perform some preliminary tests of UniVoice to see how
it stacks up and we have concluded the following: This variation of
UniVoice is a highly accurate non-gender specific pre-trained user profile.
Mark, uses NaturallySpeaking regularly and averages about 98% accuracy when
reading text. Mark's first test was only 95% accurate. When reading the
same text in UniVoice he repeatedly scored 100% accuracy. Mark produced a
2% gain in accuracy which translates into 50% fewer errors to correct. In
Mark's case there were no errors to correct but keep in mind that he was
reading text. In real-life conditions the accuracy of both UniVoice and a
trained user file will be lower. A 50% reduction in error correcting is a
huge leap in speech recognition technology. "
<http://www.knowbrainer.com/PubForum/index.cfm?page=viewForumTopic&topicId=41>
Duncan
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