Memria, the world-leading digital storytelling platform for community engagement, is excited to announce a major enhancement to the platform's automated online transcription service. The new service offers automatic transcription within minutes for free, in ten languages. The new enhancement allows organizations to expand the reach, accessibility, and benefits of their digital storytelling, community listening, and public history initiatives.
Digital storytelling is an increasingly important part of community engagement for museums, libraries, and archives, a means of documenting social impact for companies, and a vital method for preserving community history, public voices, and community knowledge. It provides easy tools for oral history projects and social impact measurement.
Memria is delighted to offer its new transcription service, removing barriers and improving access for users around the world. The enhanced transcription service is integrated into Memria’s existing platform, and incorporates cutting-edge speech recognition technology to deliver transcripts quickly and accurately in up to ten languages — including English, Spanish, French, Portuguese, Italian, Arabic and Chinese Mandarin. The free automatic transcription feature allows users to add full transcriptions of audio or video recordings, which can then be searched for keywords, phrases and topics. This enhances the discoverability of audio content by allowing users to quickly search through relevant transcripts for specific information.
The new feature enables users to quickly and easily upload audio files to the Memria platform for automatic transcription in their chosen language. With this feature, Memria is making it easier than ever for people around the world to share and preserve their stories.
Organizations using Memria’s enhanced transcription service will benefit from increased accessibility, better insight into data collected through interviews and focus groups, and improved searchability of digital archives. In addition, the ability to quickly and accurately transcribe audio recordings in multiple languages allows Memria’s users to expand their reach by tapping into new audience demographics, allowing for greater localization of digital storytelling.
The new transcription feature is included free in a basic license. Memria is committed to making digital storytelling as accessible and useful as possible, so this feature can also be used with all of Memria’s plans. As the demand for digital storytelling continues to grow, the enhanced transcription service will enable Memria’s users to create a broader range of stories.
Memria is constantly working to improve its digital storytelling platform, and this new feature includes better accuracy, faster turnaround times, and support for more languages. This allows users to expand their audience reach through improved accessibility and a broader range of stories.
In addition, transcriptions are faster. Transcripts now arrive on the dashboard typically within minutes.
Memria's transcription capabilities are now available in the following 10 languages:
- English (British spelling)
- English (American spelling)
- Spanish
- French
- Portuguese
- Italian
- Arabic
- Chinese Mandarin
- Chinese Cantonese
- Norwegian
Memria is the perfect tool for digital storytellers looking to expand their reach and impact. It’s now easier than ever for organizations to quickly and accurately transcribe audio recordings in multiple languages, so more people can experience the power of digital storytelling. With its enhanced transcription service, Memria is helping to break down language barriers and make it easier for people around the world to share their stories.
We invite you to try our new transcription service today. We are confident that it will help bring your digital storytelling projects to life in ways never before possible.
For more information about the enhanced transcription service and other features, visit www.memria.org or contact us at help@memria.org.