Artificial Intelligence

Revolutionary transcription - there's no going back on your word

18th September 2018
Anna Flockett
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In the world we live in, almost everything that is said and done can be shared with millions of people in the blink of an eye, therefore Trint, the company behind AI-powered speech-to-text transcription – has launched Trint Player, allowing users to search online video/audio content for the first time.

Video viewing is a core digital activity amongst global internet users – with 65.1% of users doing so regularly, yet until now discovering certain sections of audio/video content would typically require a user to trawl through recordings. Trint Player builds on its proprietary technology of gluing audio/video to text, making it quick and easy to search and share an interactive transcript. This means that when looking for key terms, video/audio content will now appear in online searches. Alongside this, users can actively follow the transcript while the content is playing.

The Trint Player provides a host of benefits for various workflows: 

  1. Journalists: stories can be published online faster and are discoverable by all audiences  
  2. Publishers: SEO benefit for what would otherwise be ‘dark data’
  3. Higher education: professors can share interactive lecture transcripts with students
  4. Conferences: fast publishing of keynote speakers and panel discussions
  5. Podcasters: podcasts can become searchable and reach a larger audience by being published online with the TrintPlayer

For media in particular, one of the most interesting benefits is the ability to retrace others’ statements - meaning no one can go back on their word. Should a statement be falsified, journalists can simply search the video/audio to provide confirmation.

The first of Trint’s tools designed for accessibility, the technology also benefits students studying English as a second language and those with disabilities, allowing users to actively follow highlighted transcript as the audio/video plays, while ensuring compliance to the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG 2.1AA). 

Jeff Kofman, CEO and Founder commented: “The concept of the Trint Player was born in 2016, with the aim that users could share their Trints with the world. Since then, we’ve been developing the interface to make it as clean and simple as possible to fit anybody’s website. The Trint Player enables users to stitch audio and video to text so a viewer can easily follow along a transcript – a little bit like karaoke. The technology goes beyond transcription, providing interactive, discoverable transcription in a way that’s never been seen before.” 

Trint Player is being previewed at this year’s ONA Conference, and will be offered to key enterprise customers.

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