Plain notes on how voice becomes written text
How speech becomes text, and what to check first
Speech-to-text tools turn recordings and spoken words into written notes. This site explains how they work, why they make mistakes, and what to look at before a business recording goes into one. Every fact comes from the maker's own documents or another public source.
All the notes
How speech-to-text works, in plain EnglishHow software turns a recording of someone talking into written words, and what the main parts of a transcription tool do.
Why transcripts get words wrongWhy speech-to-text misses names, accents, jargon and people talking over each other, and which factors affect accuracy.
Live dictation or recorded audio: what is the difference?Typing by voice and transcribing a saved meeting recording both turn speech into text, but the two modes work differently.
Speaker labels and timestamps explainedHow a transcription tool marks who said what and when, what diarization means, and why the labels can be wrong.
Recording tips that give clearer transcriptsWhat to change about microphones, rooms and audio files before you upload a recording, based on makers' own guidance.
Privacy questions to ask before uploading audioWhere a recording goes, how long it's kept, and what should stay out of a transcription tool, with questions to check in the maker's documents.
How to read a transcription tool's documentationWhich parts of a maker's pricing, limits and language pages matter for transcription tools, and how to check how recent they are.