Definitions & Glossaries
What is Legal Transcription?
The demand for fast and proficient legal transcription has skyrocketed in recent years. However, despite its popularity, there are also some misconceptions. What is legal transcription and why is it so important? Here’s what you…
Read MoreWhat is Speaker Diarization?
Our remote, digitally-driven culture is busier than ever before. As a result, the need and demand for recording and transcribing phone calls, online meetings, video conferences, doctor visits, and more are higher than ever before.…
Read MoreTranscription Machine: What is it and What is it Used For?
What is a Transcription Machine? A transcription machine is a special machine used for voice processing and word processing. This machine typically takes audio or video recordings and converts them into text. Transcription machines are…
Read MoreWhat Are Forced Subtitles?
Forced subtitles are a burned-in-text used to offer further clarification on the plot of a video. The forced subtitles, also known as forced narratives provide the viewer with further information such as a translation, or explanations…
Read MoreWhat is Medical Transcription?
Being a healthcare provider isn’t an easy job. Between patient care, counseling, and taking regular exams, healthcare practitioners have a lot on their plate. But that’s not all – they must also keep accurate patient…
Read MoreWhat is Speech Recognition?
Speech recognition, also known as “speech-to-text”, occurs when a machine or computer program identifies and processes a person’s spoken words and converts them into text displayed on a screen or monitor. The early stages of…
Read MoreWhat is a Ground-Truth Transcript?
When you’re testing an Automated Speech Recognition (ASR) engine, you need something to determine whether the engine’s textual output is accurate. A measuring stick of accuracy, where the farthest end is 100 percent speech-to-text perfection.…
Read MoreWhat is Phonetic Transcription?
A phonetic transcription looks quite unlike a regular (‘orthographic’) transcription. The transcriber notes the way the spoken words are pronounced, using a special alphabet of phonetic symbols. The most common is the international phonetic alphabet…
Read MoreWhat Does Clean Verbatim Transcription Mean?
If you’ve had audio or video files transcribed in the past, you probably found out that not all transcriptions are equal. How do you know if you’ll be reading through transcripts filled with stutters and…
Read MoreWhat is Digital Accessibility and Why is it Important?
Digital accessibility is more important now than ever before. Our daily lives are already increasingly digital, with the majority of the population relying on electronic tools for work, shopping, banking, entertainment, healthcare and more. But…
Read MoreWhat Does SDH Mean?
Understanding Subtitles for the Deaf or Hard of Hearing (SDH) Subtitles originally helped non-native audiences understand the language spoken in a video. But, gradually, they have evolved to make video content accessible to a wider…
Read MoreWhat is GPT-3, the New OpenAI Language Model?
Way back in 1968, a program named SHRDLU was designed to stack blocks in a virtual world, and it interacted with humans in the following way: Person: Will you please stack up both of the red…
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