Today we release our first self-hosted Auphonic Speech Recognition Engine using the open-source Whisper model by OpenAI!
With Whisper, you can now integrate automatic speech recognition in 99 languages into your Auphonic audio post-production workflow, without creating an external account and without extra costs!

Whisper Speech Recognition in Auphonic

So far, Auphonic users had to choose one of our integrated external service providers (Wit.ai, Google Cloud Speech, Amazon Transcribe, Speechmatics) for speech recognition, so audio files were transferred to an external server, using external computing powers, that users had to pay for ...

Speechmatics released a new API including an enhanced transcription engine (2h free per month!) that we integrated into the Auphonic Web Service now.
In this blog post, we also compare the accuracy of all our integrated speech recognition services and present our results.

Automatic speech recognition is most useful to make audio searchable: Even if automatically generated transcripts are not perfect and might be difficult to read (spoken text is very different from written text), they are very valuable if you try to find a specific topic within a one-hour audio file or if you need the exact ...

After an initial private beta phase, we are happy to open the Auphonic automatic speech recognition integration to all of our users!

Our WebVTT-based audio player with search in speech recognition transcripts and exact speaker names.

We built a layer on top of multiple engines to offer affordable speech recognition in over 80 languages. This blog post also includes 3 complete examples in English and German.

Search within Audio and Video

One of the main problems of podcasts, audio and video is search.

Speech recognition is an important step to make audio searchable:
Although automatically generated ...

Podcasts are great, but they have a discovery problem – the technology to change that is available.
Today we release a private beta version of automatic speech recognition integrated in Auphonic.

UPDATE:
Please read our new and updated blog post Make Podcasts Searchable (Auphonic Speech To Text Public Beta) !

Automatic Speech Recognition in Auphonic

Since recently, most automatic speech recognition services were really expensive or the quality was very bad. Broadcasting corporations spent big money to generate automatic transcripts to search within audio.
That changed, there are a couple of affordable (even free) services available now, which can ...