EVOLUTION OF THE REVOLUTIONARY AUDIO TRANSCRIPTION

Have you ever wondered how noises are made? Have you ever wanted to know how ourrnancestors communicated with each other before languages were born? How communication has developed and transformed in this modern era with its brand new software applications such as the androids, speech recognition and audio-to-text softwares?? I don’t know whether you are curious to know about all these things, but I was curious enough to make a small research about this topic.

Starting from the distinctive sounds that were generated by ancient man or the Neanderthals up to the multilingual communication of this generation, all that is important, is the medium. The three letter magic that makes everything communicable, reachable, and understandable is the "air." Man has been effectively using this media for all kinds of his communication and languages were born eventually to make communication sensible. But then, there came a need to record all his communication and here comes the invention of paper. Humans were using blocks of stone for recording his communication to the future generatio
"making history" in the form of lithography. Thus paper and the other medieval modes communication evolved. Hence a huge transition has occurred gradually over the years. Today, anything and everything is electronic, e-mail, chat, multimedia, e-records, e-tax filing, ECS, etc, games,
movies and hence recording also goes electronic with the advancement of storing and mining data easily.

Today, there is an urge to convert all data into electronic data such that they are easilyrnaccessible and given a meaningful use to analyze and improve things related to the data. Hence, there is an increased demand to convert the audio to text to store data in one database. Hence, there are a lot of job opportunities created in this area of transcriptio
"to scribe audio files." The audio to text transcription industry was a "flash in the pan" gaining momentary success. Transcription of audio to text has become a great business with the growing needs. As told earlier, there is an urgent need to convert audio to text starting from the company meetings, conferences, feedbacks, seminars, webinars,
interviews, legal, healthcare, movies, short films, documentaries, screenplay, broadcast, podcast, news, journalist interviews, police enquiry, symposia, market research, lectures and "anything under the sun" on contrast to the old days when there was very less area and mode of communication and record keeping.

Although, new softwares have emerged to transcribe the audio formats, manual transcription is always preferred for the accuracy, perfection and safety. Hence, outsourcing has become another major industry employing talented human resource. Online transcription services are available for all kinds of audio formats ranging from VHS or tape transcription to the digital forms of audios such as MP3 andrnwav formats. Any format of audio that you name can be used in transcription to convert audio to text format.

Though, the recent so called evolutionary and revolutionary speech recognition software has emerged, people still feel that manual transcription is the best for accuracy and speed. After all, humans are more predictable and trustable than any machine or software. Men and Machines have now a huge competition in the field of transcription and the industry feels that the speech recognition software has miles to go before it can reach the quality and accuracy of manual transcription. Evolution has to progress and to replace the manual transcription completely, which might be a mammoth task for the software professionals.