FreeLiveTranscript.com is an open-sourced, browser-based, speech-to-text application that creates “live transcripts of speech on the web, that can be displayed (and edited) in real-time on a big screen, or watched on anybody’s personal device.”
It’s not really meant for personal speech-to-text/dictation — you can use it for that, but there are already plenty of apps that do that. (Android’s speech-to-text; Win10’s built-in “dictation;” etc.)
But FreeLiveTranscript is different for groups: By sharing a URL that’s generated when you start the app, an arbitrary number of participants can connect to watch the speech-to-text transcript as it’s being generated in real-time. Everyone gets their own editable (JSON-based) copy of the resulting transcript.
I can think of many applications — business meetings, brainstorming sessions, journalism… — where that would be very useful.
FreeLiveTranscript is experimental. Any browser can use the shared URL to watch the live transcript and obtain a copy; but only Chrome has the speech-to-text API to generate/originate the transcripts. So, any browser can join in, but the host — the system that generates the transcript — must be using Chrome.
It’s an interesting demo… and you might even find it useful!
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