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May 29, 2019 By ray

Google will have offices and data centers in 24 states by the end of 2019

Google is still closely associated with California to many people (and to a lesser degree New York), but it’s determined to change that reputation. The company is launching a $13 billion expansion in 2019 that will give it a total US footprint of 24 states, including “major expansions” in 14 states.… Read more

April 27, 2019 By ray

How can I create Access/Secret keys for Google Cloud Storage?

Those keys are called “interoperable keys” or “migration keys”. As Google Cloud Storage does provide an S3 interface you could use an S3 Client, like “S3 Browser”, or CLI tool like “s3cmd” in order to work with Google Cloud Storage buckets as well. In order to create an access/secret key pair to access your Google cloud storage bucket: Go to https://console.cloud.google.com/storage/settings Select the “Interoperability” tabIf you haven’t enabled it already, click on “Interoperable Access”Now you should see an empty list and a “Create new Key” buttonClick on the button in order to create an access/secret keypair Be aware: Those keys doesn’t belong to the google project but your own account, which you are using to login to the google cloud console. More information about those keys and how to create them are available in the Google Cloud Storage documentation: https://cloud.google.com/storage/docs/migrating#keys … Read more

April 13, 2019 By ray

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

July 31, 2017 Ren LaForme Digital Tools Interviewing Try 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

April 12, 2019 By ray

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

April 12, 2019 By ray

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