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Best Speech-to-Text Apps for iPhone
Access to mobile speech-to-text services is increasing, and it’s important to consider transcript quality when selecting which app you want to use. If you are utilizing speech-to-text for personal use, selecting a high-quality speech-to-text service may be less critical than if you are using a transcript for business, journalism, or accessibility purposes. We gathered some…
Read MoreHow to Use Google Docs to Transcribe Audio
People need transcripts for all sorts of different reasons. Whether you’re responsible for notes from an important meeting, conducting an interview with a key customer, or worried you won’t remember all the information from a presentation, accurate transcripts create a lasting record of those conversations. While an audio or video recording may be perfectly helpful,…
Read MoreConvert AIFF to Text: How to Transcribe AIFF Files
There are many instances where you may want to turn an audio file into text. Converting an AIFF file, just one of the many available music and audio files, is one possibility. How can you make the conversion happen? How long will it take? We answer your top AIFF conversion questions to make it easier…
Read MoreClosed Captions
How to Add Captions and Subtitles in Flowplayer
What is Flowplayer? Flowplayer has positioned itself as, perhaps, the most powerful platform of live broadcasting. Already many top industry professionals have switched to it for their video player needs. Flowplayer is an open-source project that allows anybody to stream videos towards their pages, using their own server. Essentially, it successfully cuts out the middle…
Read MoreHow to Use Rev’s Different Captioning Integrations
Closed captions and subtitles are a great way to improve the content value of your videos. Captions increase the accessibility of your content and make it easier for people to view your videos in quiet environments. They also make your content discoverable to a wider audience through translated subtitles and improved SEO rankings. The quality…
Read MoreHow to Upload a Transcript to YouTube
Transcripts and captions help increase your search engine rankings using the words within your video to help viewers on search engines like Google find your content. In addition, when speech and sounds are turned into text, those who are deaf or hard-of-hearing gain access to your content, effectively expanding your viewing audience. Even people who…
Read MoreForeign Subtitles
How to Download YouTube Subtitles as Text Files
Subtitles are an easy and highly effective way to make your video content more accessible to a wider audience. First, multilingual subtitle options benefit people who don’t speak the audio’s native language. But they also benefit people who may be Deaf or hard-of-hearing, as well as people who choose to watch your video without sound…
Read MoreHow to Download Subtitle SRT Files
Foreign language films are very popular, in part, because they are accessible to more people when they use English subtitles. Unfortunately, it can be costly to hire a standard translator to watch your videos and provide an additional SRT file. Here’s how you can affordably create and download subtitle SRT files on your own, from…
Read MoreHow to Get Open Subtitles
Open subtitles, or burned-in subtitles, are an easy and popular way to display subtitles in your videos. Unlike traditional closed captions and subtitles, open subtitles are hard-coded into your video file and can’t be turned off. They’re particularly useful if you produce videos and movies intended for international distribution. Open subtitles and captions are also…
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Best Speech-to-Text Apps for iPhone
Access to mobile speech-to-text services is increasing, and it’s important to consider transcript quality when selecting which app you want to use. If you are utilizing speech-to-text for personal use, selecting a high-quality speech-to-text service may be less critical than if you are using a transcript for business, journalism, or accessibility purposes. We gathered some…
Read MoreWhat Does ‘Voicemail Transcription Not Available’ Mean?
iPhone’s automatic transcription of voicemails is extremely convenient for people who need readable records of their messages. But this AI-based service doesn’t always work well. The voicemail transcriptions can be inaccurate, incomplete, or missing altogether. It’s not uncommon to find the error message “transcript not available” when you access your visual voicemail. This can be…
Read MoreHow To Automatically Transcribe Audio
If you’ve ever spent hours manually transcribing a voice recording, you know how tedious the process is. Rewind, replay, pause, type, repeat. It takes, on average, four hours to transcribe one hour of audio. But there is an easier way. Simply upload a high-quality audio file on Rev and we’ll automatically transcribe it for you…
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How to Download YouTube Subtitles as Text Files
Subtitles are an easy and highly effective way to make your video content more accessible to a wider audience. First, multilingual subtitle options benefit people who don’t speak the audio’s native language. But they also benefit people who may be Deaf or hard-of-hearing, as well as people who choose to watch your video without sound…
Read MoreHow to Use Google Docs to Transcribe Audio
People need transcripts for all sorts of different reasons. Whether you’re responsible for notes from an important meeting, conducting an interview with a key customer, or worried you won’t remember all the information from a presentation, accurate transcripts create a lasting record of those conversations. While an audio or video recording may be perfectly helpful,…
Read MoreHow to Get Open Subtitles
Open subtitles, or burned-in subtitles, are an easy and popular way to display subtitles in your videos. Unlike traditional closed captions and subtitles, open subtitles are hard-coded into your video file and can’t be turned off. They’re particularly useful if you produce videos and movies intended for international distribution. Open subtitles and captions are also…
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Rev.com Pricing Guide
Pricing for Rev Services Here we outline the details and costs of each Rev.com service offered. 99% Accurate Audio & Video Transcription Pricing Rev charges $1.25 per minute of audio or video. For example, a 30-minute clip costs $37.50. Timestamps and verbatim are options that cost an extra $0.25 per minute each. “Rush” transcripts cost…
Read MoreWhat is the Best Timecode Generator?
Choosing the Best Timecode Generator One of the most iconic images that we all associate with movie production is the clapper board. Things have come a long way since then, with almost all video now recorded on digital cameras. Yet, the reasons for using clapper boards with times and other data written on them still…
Read MoreWhat is WER? What Does Word Error Rate Mean?
Automatic speech recognition (ASR) technology uses machines and software to identify and process spoken language. It can also be used to authenticate a person’s identity by their voice. This technology has advanced significantly in recent years, but does not always yield perfect results. In the process of recognizing speech and translating it into text form,…
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