Reviewers will also only have access to randomized snippets of audio, not full recordings. The user data will then be accessed under NDA by both Microsoft employees and contractors from other companies who work for Microsoft, but won't include any of the speakers' account credentials.
By reviewing the data, Microsoft aims to improve its speech recognition and speaker attribution capabilities over time, it says. This allows Microsoft to retain the audio and speech recognition-generated text transcriptions when all meeting participants agree to opt in for that session. While Microsoft doesn't save the meeting transcripts and recordings itself after the fact - they're saved on your device - the app does encourage participants to "contribute" their meetings' recordings to Microsoft so it can improve the service. Transcribe is a new ‘speech to text’ option in Microsoft Word.To work, the audio and text input data collected is sent to Microsoft's online speech recognition and translation technologies - though with a randomly generated identifier, not your real name. It lets you upload an audio file and convert it into text.
Now you can record a speech, lecture or meeting then later get a written transcript. Virtual meetings can be recorded and now that can become a written record as well.Īt the moment, Transcribe is available in Word Online (aka Word for web). It was promised to Office Mobile apps before the end of 2020 but hasn’t appeared yet. Presumably it’ll be expanded to Word for Windows/Mac in due course. Make your transcription document with Word in a web browser then open the final document in any other Word software. It’s a logical extension of the existing Dictate feature which converts live speech into text. wav format but we discovered Three extra audio formats that work with Microsoft 365’s Transcribe What you needĪll you need to start is an audio file up to 200MB. The speech should be clear with little background noise or music to confuse the ‘speech to text’ system. Transcribe can also record live, saving the audio file to OneDrive and offering a Word document of the text. When you’re finished choose ‘Save and transcribe now’ to upload and convert the recording into text. Difference between Dictate and Transcribe recordingĪt first, Dictate and Transcribe recording might seem the same. They are similar but there’s important differences. Dictateĭictate is live real-time conversion of text of what you say. Word and phrases appear in the document moments after you speak.ĭifferent speakers aren’t marked in any way. There’s no pause option (though we wish there was). Voice commands like ‘New Paragraph’ work in Dictate.
What you say isn’t recorded for later playback. Transcribe recording records your speech or meeting first. Then it’s uploaded and converted to text once the recording is over.ĭifferent speakers are noted under separate headings. The transcription can be edited in the Transcribe pane. The entire recording is saved in your OneDrive /Transcribed Files folder. The transcribed text appears in the Transcribe pane and might seem simple but there’s a lot of useful features hiding here. The ‘Audio file’ and ‘Transcript’ lines use Heading 1 style. There’s nothing to separate speakers names from the spoken words. It’s a shortsighted decision that makes it unnecessarily difficult to reformat the transcript. Surely it would be better to use Heading 2 for speakers names? Then users could easily reformat the naming either by changing the look of Heading 2 or Replacing that style with another (e.g. ‘Speaker Name’).Īt the least, transcribed words should have a separate style (e.g. ‘Transcript’ or ‘Spoken’), even if the initial style settings are the same as Normal? Ideally, each speakers words should be in a separate style (e.g.
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