(Archived) Speech-To-Text

[rainerschnelle 4]

Has anyone at Evernote ever thought of the idea of implementing a speech-to-text feature? Web services like Jott and Dial2Do show that it can be done with a decent level of accuracy and I think that would fit nicely with the direction Evernote is going. What do you think?

[engberg 89]

We currently recommend that users use something like Dial2Do to just transcribe and then mail to your "incoming email address" (see the Settings page on the web). Quite a few people have reported good results with this combination.

These companies typically employ a combined solution that involves some machine transcription combined with rooms full of people to get acceptable results from noisy inputs like cell phones. Managing a dedicated team of transcribers is a bit ambitious for us right now, so we're steering people towards integrations that work well already. However, we're not ruling out doing something like that in-house some day.

Thanks