VoiceBase Transcription Trial

I decided to give VoiceBase, an online transcription AI, a try.

Like YouTube, once you upload your file, VoiceBase will give you an AI software transcription of your file. When you sign up for a free account with VoiceBase, you get 50 free hours of AI transcription.

However, it also has a paid 'human' transcription service, at a very reasonable fee of 2 cents per minute. The website is at https://www.voicebase.com/.

So I thought I would give it a try to test accuracy. I dictated 61 seconds of information onto my PC, saved it as an mp3 file, and uploaded that file to VoiceBase.

In under 24 hours, I got an email with my transcription attached as a text file.

Below are the results:

What I said Hello there. This is Sam Young and I'm recording my voice in order to do a trial on VoiceBase. I'm just going to do a couple of minutes exploring how well my speech is transcribed using this software. I'm going to do a couple of test quotes in order to see how well this comes through. This is a quote from Reginald Hill from his book, Arms and the Women, 1999, page 67: "Is this really so important to me I've got to say it? Is this potentially so interesting to readers, they'll have to read it?". Now a couple of pieces of not prose, but technical writing; Why can't I get help from this programme... [my transcription got cut off here].

What VoiceBase thought I said Hello there. This is Sam Yang and I'm recording my voice and Order to a trial on The Voice space. I'm just going to do a couple of minutes exploring how well my speech is transcribed using this software. I'm going to do a couple of teased quiets and it would say how well this comes through this is a quote from original to hell from his book. I'm send the woman nineteen ninety nine page sixty seven. Is this really saw important to me I've got to say it is this potentially so interesting to read as traders [...] now a couple of paces if not prize batch typical brushing Why can't I get help from this program... [cut off point].

Hmm. I am not sure that VoiceBase's AI is any better Dragon NaturallySpeaking. It also occurs to me that uploading a file to YouTube and copying out the transcription might be just as accurate.

So I will give both of those a try and report back on them as well.

Sam