Anyone using otter.ai for #voice #transcription? It's browser-based so it fits my hunger for something cross-platform. It is a paid service with 600 minutes free per month. It's useful. Looking at others too. So far, it's kept up with my mouth! #a11y (FYI @vavroom)

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It's good. I have a free account and my uni has a Zoom integration. I think it does less well with someone who has atypical speech, and that's where trainable software may come in (e.g. Dragon).
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It's working for me and I'm atypical with rapid, pressured speech, stuttering, absence seizure and hypoxia related pauses - it adjusts! As Nicholas said some manual editing is needed but I'm impressed. I'd have to edit anyway with my Academy meets New Jersey Street vernacular. 馃槈
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I have a different use case (captioning video content for YouTube), but I鈥檝e been using Amazon鈥檚 speech recognition service and finding it helpful. I like that it鈥檚 pay-as-you-go rather than a monthly fee.
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I was thinking this could be used for exactly that. I haven't tried Amazon speech service. I am a reluctant Prime Member and customer due to personal disgust with the corporation but 'needs must and all that' my dear KoB! I'll look.
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Glad to know that! So far, it seems smooth. And I have pressured speech issues, it's keeping up! Nice to see at least some options/alternatives popping up as I try things out. Some free audio-to-text options too, time-consuming but still could help others, and meet my own needs.
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I haven't tested the app itself for #a11y screen reader issues, but the #UI is decent visually and very easy to use for me so far.