#aitranscription — Public Fediverse posts

https://winbuzzer.com/2026/03/27/cohere-open-source-transcribe-model-tops-asr-leaderboard-xcxwbn/

Cohere's Open-Source Transcribe Model Tops ASR Leaderboard

#AI #Cohere #CohereTranscribe #SpeechRecognition #AITranscription #OpenSourceAI #HuggingFace #MultimodalAI

https://winbuzzer.com/2026/03/27/cohere-open-source-transcribe-model-tops-asr-leaderboard-xcxwbn/

Cohere's Open-Source Transcribe Model Tops ASR Leaderboard

#AI #Cohere #CohereTranscribe #SpeechRecognition #AITranscription #OpenSourceAI #HuggingFace #MultimodalAI

https://winbuzzer.com/2026/03/27/cohere-open-source-transcribe-model-tops-asr-leaderboard-xcxwbn/

Cohere's Open-Source Transcribe Model Tops ASR Leaderboard

#AI #Cohere #CohereTranscribe #SpeechRecognition #AITranscription #OpenSourceAI #HuggingFace #MultimodalAI

https://winbuzzer.com/2026/03/27/cohere-open-source-transcribe-model-tops-asr-leaderboard-xcxwbn/

Cohere's Open-Source Transcribe Model Tops ASR Leaderboard

#AI #Cohere #CohereTranscribe #SpeechRecognition #AITranscription #OpenSourceAI #HuggingFace #MultimodalAI

https://winbuzzer.com/2026/03/27/cohere-open-source-transcribe-model-tops-asr-leaderboard-xcxwbn/

Cohere's Open-Source Transcribe Model Tops ASR Leaderboard

#AI #Cohere #CohereTranscribe #SpeechRecognition #AITranscription #OpenSourceAI #HuggingFace #MultimodalAI

A lesson in AI transcription: The “play” button in Google Recorder is there for a reason

A little over two months after I canceled my Evernote subscription instead of eating a 92 percent subscription-rate increase, I’m still figuring out how to handle two tasks that app had handled well. One is scanning business cards, a chore I have set aside because I can still see part of my desktop at home; the other is transcribing recordings of interviews.

For the shortest conversations, typing in real-time on my phone or laptop suffices. The same goes for interviews with people so practiced at talking to journalists that they habitually speak at a measured pace and in concise sentences.

But in many other cases, it’s easier to record the conversation and transcribe it later–and over the last several years, machine learning and AI have helped software get good at that. I had used Otter for a while before Evernote added its own implementation and then dramatically improved it; dropping that subscription in favor of Obsidian, which doesn’t seem to offer a comparable tool, required finding a replacement that would ideally come without its own fees.

Google’s free Live Transcribe is built into Android’s accessibility software and so was my first choice. But I soon got grumpy with its iffy word recognition, clunky controls, and limited export options.

My next stop was another Google app, this one reserved for Pixel phones like my own Pixel 9 Pro: Google Recorder.

The single biggest advantage of that free app is that its AI transcription works offline and on-device. That keeps it usable in settings with problematic bandwidth and keeps my recordings private instead of requiring a cloud upload for transcriptions. Recorder also offers multiple export options via its Share menu: saving a .txt transcript file to my phone or other destinations, creating a new Google Docs file, or dumping the transcript into Google’s NotebookLM AI tool.

But after two months of leaning on this app, I have to report that its accuracy also falls a little short of what Evernote did and what I’ve seen from briefly trying such competing apps as Read AI. Recorder often takes a few words to recognize a change in speakers, it sometimes split sentences when it shouldn’t, it can miss brief interjections, and it incorrectly capitalizes enough nouns to make me wonder if it was trained on German source texts.

Whatever the faults, those are usually easy problems to fix. I will open that transcript in whatever editing app I prefer, tap the “play” button on the recording on my phone or its cloud backup, then type in whatever Google’s AI missed. This usually requires only one pass, and since I’d want to listen to a recording of another AI transcript before going with its output anyway, it doesn’t feel like time seriously wasted.

None of this seems seamless. But when you’re trying to turn somebody else’s speech into quotable copy, nothing is–as I was reminded of recently when I opened notes I had hurriedly typed from a meeting that I was sure would be quick enough not to require recording, then wished I had a rewind button on that decision.

"AI tools are making potentially harmful errors in social work records, from bogus warnings of suicidal ideation to simple “gibberish”, frontline workers have said.

Keir Starmer last year championed what he called “incredible” time-saving social work transcription technology. But research across 17 English and Scottish councils shared with the Guardian has now found AI-generated hallucinations are slipping in.

As scores of local authorities begin to use AI note-takers to accelerate recording and summarisation of meetings with adult and child service users, a seven-month study by the Ada Lovelace Institute found “some potentially harmful misrepresentations of people’s experiences are occurring in official care records”.

The independent thinktank found that one social worker who had used an AI transcription tool to create a summary said the technology had incorrectly “indicated that there was suicidal ideation”, but “at no point did the client actually … talk about suicidal ideation or planning, or anything”."

https://www.theguardian.com/education/2026/feb/11/ai-tools-potentially-harmful-errors-social-work

#AI #GenerativeAI #AITranscription #SocialWork #UK #Hallucinations

Voxtral Transcribe 2 from Mistral AI brings open, production ready speech AI to everyone: fast, accurate transcription, solid diarization and support for long, multilingual audio. It is a strong option if you want powerful speech understanding without locking into closed APIs.

#Voxtral #Transcribe2 #MistralAI #SpeechAI #AITranscription #OpenSourceAI #FLOSS

Plaid just rolled out a new button in NotePin that lets you long‑press a recording, feel a haptic cue, and instantly get AI‑assisted transcription and a concise summary. Powered by generative language models, it turns minutes of audio into readable notes in a tap. Curious how it works? Dive into the details. #Plaid #NotePin #AITranscription #GenerativeAI

🔗 https://aidailypost.com/news/plaid-adds-button-notepin-enhancing-audio-transcription-summary

#AITranscription : #LimitlessAI has been acquired by #META #Facebook.

As of December 5, 2025, the service will no longer be available in #Brazil, #China, the #EuropeanUnion, #Israel, #SouthKorea, #Turkey, and the #UnitedKingdom.

Users will have until December 19, 2025 to download their information, after which, their account & all associated information will be permanently deleted.

#transcription #LiveTranscribeApp #transcribeaudio #transcribeapp #Transcribe #RewindAI #GAFAM #Meeting

#AITranscription : #LimitlessAI has been acquired by #META #Facebook.

As of December 5, 2025, the service will no longer be available in #Brazil, #China, the #EuropeanUnion, #Israel, #SouthKorea, #Turkey, and the #UnitedKingdom.

Users in these regions will have until December 19, 2025 to download their information, after which, their account and all associated information will be permanently deleted.

#transcription #LiveTranscribeApp #transcribeaudio #transcribeapp #Transcribe

#AITranscription : #LimitlessAI has been acquired by #META #Facebook.

As of December 5, 2025, the service will no longer be available in #Brazil, #China, the #EuropeanUnion, #Israel, #SouthKorea, #Turkey, and the #UnitedKingdom.

Users will have until December 19, 2025 to download their information, after which, their account & all associated information will be permanently deleted.

#transcription #LiveTranscribeApp #transcribeaudio #transcribeapp #Transcribe #RewindAI #GAFAM #Meeting

#AITranscription : #LimitlessAI has been acquired by #META #Facebook.

As of December 5, 2025, the service will no longer be available in #Brazil, #China, the #EuropeanUnion, #Israel, #SouthKorea, #Turkey, and the #UnitedKingdom.

Users in these regions will have until December 19, 2025 to download their information, after which, their account and all associated information will be permanently deleted.

#transcription #LiveTranscribeApp #transcribeaudio #transcribeapp #Transcribe

#AITranscription : #LimitlessAI has been acquired by #META #Facebook.

As of December 5, 2025, the service will no longer be available in #Brazil, #China, the #EuropeanUnion, #Israel, #SouthKorea, #Turkey, and the #UnitedKingdom.

Users in these regions will have until December 19, 2025 to download their information, after which, their account and all associated information will be permanently deleted.

#transcription #LiveTranscribeApp #transcribeaudio #transcribeapp #Transcribe

Every other transcription app is in the storage business. We're in the forgetting business. Your iPhone remembers so the internet doesn't have to.

https://apps.apple.com/gb/app/meeting-minutes-pragmatic-ai/id6752467167

#PrivacyTech #NoCloud #iPhone #AITranscription #DataSecurity #Meetings #LocalStorage #Tech

https://winbuzzer.com/2025/11/11/elevenlabs-launches-scribe-v2-realtime-speech-to-text-model-with-ultra-low-latency-xcxwbn

ElevenLabs Launches Scribe v2 Realtime Speech-To-Text Model with Ultra-low Latency

#AI #ElevenLabs #SpeechToText #GenAI #EnterpriseAI #AITools #AITranscription #TextToSpeech

Every other transcription app is in the storage business. We're in the forgetting business. Your iPhone remembers so the internet doesn't have to. https://apple.co/4nDlJvR #PrivacyTech #NoCloud #iPhone #AITranscription #DataSecurity #Meetings #LocalStorage #Tech

Class-action suit claims Otter AI records private work conversations

https://www.npr.org/2025/08/15/g-s1-83087/otter-ai-transcription-class-action-lawsuit

#HackerNews #ClassActionSuit #OtterAI #PrivacyConcerns #WorkConversations #AITranscription #Lawsuit

This week, the delightful Adam Engst of TidBITS joins me to discuss the results of his attempt to measure the audio transcription accuracy of several different AI tools. Emphasis on "attempt".

https://www.podfeet.com/blog/2025/03/ccatp-811/

#AITranscription

OpenAI has upgraded its AI speech models, enhancing transcription accuracy and improving voice realism

#AI #GenAI #OpenAI #AISpeech #VoiceAI #AITranscription #TextToSpeech #SpeechToText #AIethics #SyntheticVoices

https://winbuzzer.com/2025/03/20/openai-enhances-ai-speech-models-with-more-realistic-voices-and-improved-transcription-xcxwbn/

@easternblot and others: do you inform your sources about or even ask for permission to use the their audio with AI transcription programs?

I haven't used those services yet because it feels weird to hand a recording to a third party. I wish there was reliable self-hosted transcription.

#AI #transcription #AItranscription #otter

Casual app update via #MacAppStore for #AI-Transcription.

A 5,2 GB update. What the hell am I installing there?

And how does this go through the App vetting process. I mean, I know quality control is a major issue at #Apple but I keep being astonished about their huge and growing list of fuck-ups.

#itjustworks #macOS

Oh, I think this programmer has similar relationship issues to the others.

What was said: Sometimes these things get picked up

What AI said: Sometimes these things hook up.

#AITranscription

NC #955 Balanced Audio, Whisper Transcription aka MacWhisper, Wahoo Tickr Heart Rate Monitor, Callsheet for TV and Movies https://www.podfeet.com/blog/2023/08/nc-955/

Thanks to Jill from the Northwoods, @bbusschots, and Andy from New Hampshire for contributing such great content.

#cycling #heartrate #AITranscription #moves #TV @caseyliss