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Adrian Hyde
Jul 13, 2017Steel Contributor
Transcription capability isn't very good
Hi - The new features of Stream are cool, but so far we've found the transcription/closed-captioning services in Stream are not good (specifically poor accuracy) versus some other tools we use for th...
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Hi, are they any plans to improve on the auto-generated transcription accuracy? We have tried it a couple of times and it isn't really anywhere close to what is actually being said (without any background music or noise). This means we would have to spend a lot of time editing the transcription for it to be of any benefit. This means we just don't use it.
Adarsh Solanki
Feb 28, 2018Microsoft
Hi Trevor -
We are absolutely planning to improve the auto-generated captions as much as we can! Sorry to hear that you are having to go through the trouble of editing your captions to provide value. We hope to decrease our error rate considerably in the coming year as we upgrade the underlying speech infrastructure.