Will it be Replaced by Voice Recognition Software?
Well maybe as a professional transcriptionist I could be considered biased, but this article indicates a number of reasons why transcription will not be replaced by voice recognition software, at least for the foreseeable future. What is voice recognition software? Voice recognition software (the best known example is probably Dragon Naturally Speaking by Nuance) is software that allows the operator to speak in the computer in order to give the computer commands (e.g. to save a file) or to dictate speech into the computer. Over the past ten years it has been hailed a number of times as the answer to fast and accurate dictation – but we’re still waiting. The latest version of Dragon claims to be 99% accurate and three times faster than typing, so I recently purchased a copy to see. Dictation only? It is important to remember, especially if you are producing interviews rather than one-person dictation, that the software will only recognise the one voice it’s trained in. If you try to rec
