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Google Voice Speech to Text Transcription of Voicemail (with examples!)

Mon, 11/30/2009 - 11:32 — mcdowell

As some of you are probably aware, the Google Voice service will automatically transcribe your voicemail using Google's speech recognition technology - it was mentioned in one of Emily's blog posts.

The results are... mixed. I've shared two examples out of my account. The software does a surprisingly good job with the longer file from Ken (note, some strong language), while it misses almost every word in the short message from Pam.

Edit: looks like embedding isn't working - I've attached the two messages as audio files (see attachments). Here are the text transcripts:

 

From Pam:

 

Hey hon, it's Tim right now. Call me and back.

From Ken:

 

hey ian it's ken i just got your message i just realized it showed unfortunately i am in upstate new york right now at friend's birthday thing that's weird because i don't know forest i'm not anyway so of course i probably won't make it back in time for that but i will ping you when i'm back in town bye bye