Chinese search engine giant:
Baidu is called the “Google of China”. There is no doubt that Baidu is a Chinese search engine giant. According to Forbes, it is considered one of the innovative companies.
New app:
The company has announced to launch a new web app called SwiftScribe.
The purpose of the app:
The app is made to facilitate people.
Artificial intelligence:
The app record audio very quickly using the artificial intelligence.
DeepSpeech software:
The search engine is now trying to improve its DeepSpeech software for voice recognition.
Android keyboard:
The company has also launched an Android keyboard TalkType that uses DeepSpeech. The basic idea of this keyboard is that you can write data more quickly when you speak.
Latest app:
The latest app has better technology than the previous one.
Speech recognition technology:
Big companies like Google, Microsoft, Apple and Amazon are working hard on the speech recognition technology. But none of them is successful as Baidu has developed a new app.
How does the app work?
The app works in the following manner:
- This app recognises files in a wave or mp3
- When the upload is complete, then the recording process is started.
- One minute file takes less than 30 seconds while 30-second file takes 10 seconds.
- The maximum time limit in this app is 20 minutes.
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Necessary changes:
You can make some changes in the text like adding punctuation, capitalization and spelling changes.
Keyboard shortcuts:
The keyboard shortcuts help you in many ways like:
- Adding a line break
- Rewind
- Change the speed of audio
Inspired by Wu’s experience:
The major influence of this app comes from Baidu project manager Tian Wu. Wu has conducted many interviews of graduates at University of California, Santa Barbara.
What has Wu said?
Wu said that recording one-hour audio file requires 10 hours because I don’t understand English fully. I am just sharing my experience. Normally one-hour audio clip will take four to six hours.
Inspirations:
Nina Wei, who is the colleague of Wu took inspiration from recording engineers.
Fast recording:
The company believe that this app is 1.67 times faster than any other app.
Less time:
It will record the audio in 40 % less time.
Recording engineers:
This app is specifically made for recording engineers. The recording engineers tend to work on computer systems, so this app has helped them a lot. It also helps historians and media persons.
Free service:
Baidu’s project manager said that this app is absolutely free. We are planning to make its premium version.
More options:
The company is planning to add captioning and video transcription options. The upcoming version of this app will contain automatically adding punctuation.
