Transcription
Transcription turns recorded audio into text, automatically. As soon as recording produces audio, dembrane transcribes it, cleans it up, and stitches it into a transcript you can read, search and ask questions of. It’s automatic on every tier - secure transcription is included even on Free (see tiers & billing).
Secure and multilingual#
dembrane transcribes in dozens of languages and copes with people switching language mid-sentence, so people can speak naturally, in their own language, and still get a faithful transcript. Audio is handled on infrastructure dembrane controls, and where data needs to stay in the EU that can be arranged - see data ownership & compliance.
A project has a default conversation language, but participants record in their own, and the portal can be offered per language so the whole experience matches the speaker.
Key terms#
After the first draft, a language model cleans up the transcript - and the most useful thing you can give it is a list of key terms: the proper nouns, names and jargon you want spelled right. Set them in the portal editor. Without “dembrane” in that list, for instance, it gets misspelled across your transcripts.
Tip
Spend two minutes on key terms before an event. A handful of names and acronyms is the difference between "Ms Janssen, the alderman" and three different spellings of the same person.
Anonymisation#
Turn on anonymisation (per project, in the portal editor) and identifying details spoken aloud - names and the like - are removed before the transcript is stored, so it can be shared and analysed without exposing who said what. A conversation’s detail view shows its anonymisation status, so you always know whether what you’re reading has been cleaned.
Important
Decide on anonymisation before you collect, where you can. Whether names are redacted is a privacy choice about the people in your room - cleaner to set the expectation up front than to change course halfway through.
Re-transcribing#
Changed your key terms, turned anonymisation on, or simply weren’t happy with a result? You can re-transcribe a conversation - or a batch of them - from the conversations view. dembrane re-runs on the original audio and replaces the transcript. The audio is the source of truth, so this is safe to do as often as you need.
Related#
- Recording - where the audio comes from.
- The portal editor - where you set key terms and anonymisation.
- Conversations & transcripts - reading, editing and re-transcribing the result.
- Data ownership & compliance - how transcripts are stored and kept private.
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