Spext looks like a Google doc, but for audio editing
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Spext - Convert your speech, podcasts and videos to text.

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Spext is the easiest way to convert and share your audio - speech, podcasts and videos to text

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Anup Gosavi
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Hi PH family! Thanks Kevin for hunting us :) I was looking to research the retail and fashion industry for a consulting project and I thought the best way to learn was podcasts. Nothing better than actually hearing experts talk about future, challenges and opportunities of the industry. I found lots of great podcasts but didn't have the time to listen to all of them. You cannot skim audio the way you can skim text. That is where the idea of "reading podcasts" came about. We worked over the weekends to create a simple tool that converted audio to text and had an editor to improve the transcription accuracy. We then hired 2 interns to create accurate transcripts. They were surprisingly, very productive - converted 50+ retail podcasts into text in just over a month 😮 I was able to understand the industry in a record time and the interns actually liked their boring job. Infact, they loved 'the tool' so much that they insisted we release it to others. So thank you Shivani and Sana, our bright young interns. 🤗 We all brainstormed the name for, ummmm, 2 minutes and came up with Spext! 🙂 Main challenges for transcriptions are costs and time involved. We hope Spext helps reduce both over time and makes transcription a little less boring. Happy Spexting!
Dylan Fox
@_anupg Great idea. We just launched on PH a few days ago (https://www.producthunt.com/post...) and have a Speech Recognition API. Would be great to talk to see if we can help!
Ross Currie
@_anupg Cool, had a similar problem and thought process recently and was looking at building this exact thing. What does your service provide over IBM's free Watson transcription "demo"?
Ashutosh
Maker
@_anupg @rossdcurrie Great! It has an editor which is perfectly synced to the audio. It helps in achieving 100% accuracy. You can export in doc and rst format. And you have your own audio repository and its transcripts with you forever.
Krishna De
Added you to my curations and have a few questions: I see the free trial - how many minutes is that for? The copy on your site says it works with speech, podcasts and video but the trial page says "Upload your audio file" - what format do files need to be in? Will you be enabling purchasing credits rather than being on a monthly plan? What languages do you support? Does this work as a responsive website or will there be mobile apps developed? What platform are you building the speech to text feature off?
Ashutosh
Maker
@krishnade Thanks Krishna! In free trial you can upload 4 audio file, Spext will convert first 4 mins of each. You can do both either upload the file, pick form dropbox or copy paste the link of audio file. It supports all the major audio/ video formats. Also it points out if the format is not supported. For credits we will surely look at it. Currently only English is supported, very soon other languages will be supported based on consumer demand. Spext is more like an editor, It works best on desktop browsers. Chrome and Safari are tested. We use mix of Google, Watson and our own deep learning models for Error correction and punctuations.
Krishna De
@ashu_trv Thanks for confirming
Vlad Korobov
It stuck on 90% http://take.ms/dlWyi. How long on a free plan should I wait? 1 day would be ok?
Sanyam Jain
Maker
Hi @vladkorobov ! It usually takes only a few minutes to transcribe hours of audio. :) Can you please message on spext.co or drop a mail to hello@spext.co so that our team can get in touch with you? Thanks
Vlad Korobov
@spext @xerosanyam now it is transcribed. Quality is good. I wish it would do line break for a new person talking. Also I would like to get Pay as you go plan. For example I would pay $5 for a 1 file recognition rather that go for subscription.
Ashutosh
Maker
@spext @xerosanyam @vladkorobov We have top ups once you subscribe for a plan. We will let you know as soon as we enable pay as you go. The speaker labels are for the next version :)
Ashutosh
Maker
@vladkorobov Please checkout new version of spext. We have introduced pay-as-you-go and top ups for everyone. It is now much more fast and supports multiple languages.
Vlad Korobov
@ashu_trv hard to find, also there is an error with recognition. drop me email vlad@livetyping.com I will pass the file to you
Shivam Kumar

Loved using it

Pros:

One of the best application to get transcript of any video files

Cons:

None as of now. Very good accuracy. Ofcourse accuracy is something which can always be improved.

Emily Hodgins
Hey there @_anupg @xerosanyam & @ashu_trv 👋 Can you let us know a little more about Spext? What's the number 1 feature that we should all check out?
Anup Gosavi
Maker
@xerosanyam @ashu_trv @ems_hodge Just added the story of how we started Spext below. I would love everyone to use the Spext editor to edit the demo podcast transcript we already have. We have lots of good ideas to improve the editor and would love for all of you to check it.
Vlad Korobov
What do you use inside?
Ashutosh
Maker
@vladkorobov We use mix of Google, Watson and few of our own models for best speech to text conversion.
Evan Wilder
Will be using this for our upcoming podcast.
Sanyam Jain
Maker
Simon Dingle
Incredible work guys! This is the most impressive product I’ve seen in a long time. Looking forward to giving it a go in my workflow.
Joe
How does Spext compare to Descript