Not Very good at all
On reading the sales blurb and other information my hopes were raised in that here might be a piece of software that would be easy to use and - with AI technology - be amazingly accurate. The hope was that this software would save me a huge amount of time and effort.
Sadly, this was not what I found.
Having used the program here are few things I to take note of...
You need to have the playback volume quite high. If you don't then the transcription process just stops.
Having the volume up also seems to help with the accuracy of transcription.
However, 'accuracy' is where the problems really begin and end.
This software is not very accurate at all.
I thought perhaps it might be the quality of the recorded file I was using so - to try and be fair - made a little trial/comparison using the audio from a 25 minute video that I wanted to transcribe.
One-Transcriber missed a lot of the words completely and those it did pick up were less than 70% accurate. And of course I had to wait the full 25 minutes while the video played through.
On the other hand, the other software (Also on Appsumo) sailed through the transcription in less than a 3 minutes missing nothing and with about 95% accuracy.
That in essence means that you are going to have to spend a lot of time going through and correcting the output from One-Transcription.
OK, so One-Transcription is billed as being for live transcription. But think about it for a moment... As I was transcribing a recording, I was able to take my time and adjust the sound volume and so on to optimise the results. Would any of us have the time to do that while on a live call?
Probably not.
Giving what is in essence a bad review is not something that I enjoy doing, but I can't recommend One-Transcriber at all.
As mentioned, there other transcription solutions out there that really do work well - and frankly a lot quicker than One-Transcriber especially if you are transcribing files you have on your computer.
I always record my live sessions and frankly it would take less time to run a recording of a call/ webinar though better software compared with using One-Transcriber to do a poor job of transcribing live and then having to listen again to the same conversation to correct all the mistakes One-Transcriber made.
Frankly, I can't recommend this software at all however, Appsumo does offer a 60 day refund if you are not satisfied. So please do try One-Transcriber. You never know your experience might be better then mine (I really hope so) - and if it is be sure to leave a more positive review.
Giuseppe_OneTranscriber
May 9, 2024Thanks for your detailed review and for having used and tried One Transcriber.
Here the feedbacks to your comments, hoping to clarify the issues and to help in getting the most out of One Transcriber.
1) Speakers Volume & Transcription Accuracy
In general, One Transcriber is independent of the volume of the Output Speakers used to play the audio to transcribe, since it captures directly the signal from the Operating System (Windows in this case) Library APIs.
Here below* you find a recording, just made and publicly available, that shows One Transcriber used to transcribe in real-time a Video Speech from You Tube: you can see that the accuracy is the highest, even when lowering near to 0 the volume of the speakers (although in the video the audio is still high due to the software used to record the screen (OBS) which captures directly at the source, same as One Transcriber does). And you check yourself and compare to the embedded CC provided by youtube.
* https://youtu.be/JcB-zGPHmS0
However the accuracy can depend on the quality of the source recording (in the above case, the youtube video/audio is HDD); when the Sampling of the recording is low (e.g. 8k hrz) in monochannel, it could lead to low quality output, given that the Streaming processing of the audio signal is much more complex than the batch mode.
Would be important to understand, what transcription language has been used.
Anyway, if by raising the volume, you found the accuracy raised, well: I really believe that the vast majority of users won't be in trouble during an Online Meeting (which is one of the core cases for One Transcriber) if they need to raise the speakers' volumes just by pushing a single button on the keyboard :D.
2) Transcription of files, Turnaround times, Accuracy
One Transcriber provides Audio Streaming Live Transcriptions, which is based on quite more complex Technology than the usual Batch Transcriptions (i.e. when you upload a file and you get results in some minutes).
Of course, as a workaround, it's possible to use One Transcriber to transcribe live a file recording, which will take exactly the duration of the same file (being by definition real-time).
However, as part of a next Release, the usual Feature of Batch/File Transcriptions will also be enabled with One Transcriber, so that such use cases can be handled more easily for those who are not interested in Live/Real-Time Transcriptions.
Finally let me highlight again that One Transcriber really differentiates from all others for the Real-Time and live transcription, which is not provided at all (or with few exceptions, like otter.ai, with many workarounds or flexibility).
And the Accuracy, assuming high quality audio source, is among the highest on the market (Google APIs, AWS, Microsoft, Assembly API, which are the main providers all other applications leverage on mostly).
Thanks a lot again.
It's really great to get challenging reviews like yours, since they are the basis for the improvement!