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Two college students started a transcription service. After journalists heard about it, it crashed

July 31, 2017 Ren LaFormeDigital ToolsInterviewingTry This! — Tools For JournalismCategory:Tech & Tools Two college students were sitting on the couch in the living room of their shared Dublin apartment in May when their servers crashed. About a week earlier, the duo had launched a free tool that automatically transcribes audio files.… Read more

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Evaluate speech-to-text services from AWS, Microsoft and Google

Amazon Transcribe, Microsoft Azure Speech to Text and Google Cloud Speech-to-Text enable developers to create dictation applications that can automatically generate transcriptions for audio files, as well as captions for video files. Development teams can weave these capabilities into timesaving apps for a range of uses, including call center analytics, video indexing services, web conference indexing and business transcription workflows.… Read more

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State of the Market: Voice dictation APIs

Transcribe-bot monster meltdown: DeepSpeech, Dragon, Google, IBM, MS, and more! Speech has been a near-impossible field for computers until recently, and as talking to my computer has been something I dreamed of as a kid, I have been tracking the field as it progressed trough the years. Expectations from dictation are high, correcting more than two words per paragraph means to most people it is just easier to type the whole thing in.Microphone quality is very important to speech transcription, $50 headsets are just “ok”, for best results the professionals use pro mics which cost $300+.According to google Audio for recognition should not be compressed in a lossy way, as it hampers recognition.… Read more

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Free SSL Certificate Setup for WordPress on Google Cloud (Click-to-Deploy)

In this quick-start tutorial you will learn how to configure free, auto-renewing SSL certificates for WordPress websites that are hosted on Google Cloud compute engine using the Click-to-Deploy version of WordPress on Google Cloud. Having SSL Security on your website will improve your Google search ranking. If you’re using the Bitnami version of WordPress on Google Cloud, you can view that SSL certificate tutorial here.… Read more

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Minimal Ubuntu, on public clouds and Docker Hub

Today we are delighted to introduce the new Minimal Ubuntu, optimized for automated use at scale, with a tiny package set and minimal security cross-section. Speed, performance and stability are primary concerns for cloud developers and ops. “The small footprint of Minimal Ubuntu, when deployed with fast VM provisioning from GCE, helps deliver drastically improved boot times, making them a great choice for developers looking to build their applications on Google Cloud Platform,” said Paul Nash, Group Product Manager, Google Cloud.” Smaller and faster, for automated cloud operations Minimal Ubuntu is the smallest Ubuntu base image for your cloud operations.… Read more