![]() Jeremy Caplan, Director of Education for the Tow-Knight Center for Entrepreneurial Journalism at the City University of New York Graduate School of Journalism, recently gave Otter a positive mention in a Medium post, so I emailed him. (AISense currently offers up to 600 minutes per month of free Otter usage, which is quite helpful when you are still seeking funds for your project and need to scrimp and save, like this documentary maker.)īut you shouldn’t just take it from the guy being paid to write about it, so I reached out to a couple of working media professionals, who had praised Otter publicly, for their views. ![]() Suddenly, my massive transcription workload isn’t so immense anymore, and Otter has significantly sped up my workflow. No, it’s not always 100 percent accurate, especially when transcribing voices with strong foreign accents, but the AI tech it uses makes it much better than any program I have tried before, and it really does save time. Yes, I’m being paid to write this article, but I had a real “holy $&*%!” moment, as Otter is a most impressive tool. So when I tried out the app on some footage that I needed transcribed, I was shocked. This is why Otter Voice Notes- or just Otter for short - is a transcription game changer.įortunately, a friend referred me to be a writer for this blog, as I hadn’t yet heard of Otter. Transcription services aren’t cheap, and if you do it yourself, it can take an annoyingly long time. Transcription can be a major pain, especially since you need accurate time codes to find specific moments. I’m currently editing my first feature-length documentary film, and have 200+ hours of footage, including many interviews. To offer an example, I can start with my own work. ![]() And while the Otter transcription app, developed by AISense, may not make a difference on the scale of Google or Twitter, it is already making a significant impact among those who use it. The advent of powerful online search capabilities, social media and, of course, the Internet itself has revolutionized the media world. Since graduating college in the early 1990s, I have had a variety of media-related jobs, and during this time the field has been massively disrupted by technology in well-documented ways.
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