Stefan Mileschin

For lazy journalists who can't take notes

Lazy reporters who rely on audio recording tools and gadgets during press events or interviews have been given a hand by the software king of the world, Microsoft.

For a couple of decades, reporters who have not had any training in notetaking or shorthand have relied on recording the interview and then going back to office and manually transcribing the story while their news editor shouts at them to meet a deadline.

Now if these hacks are using Microsoft Word they will be relieved that there is a transcription button added. This will allow Word users to transcribe audio like during an interview, or even download audio and have it transcribed. These transcriptions will be written down and timestamped to make it easier for users to jump to specific parts.

Initially, Vole says the new service will be limited to five hours worth of uploaded recordings per month, with each upload limited to 200MB. It will only support "US English" but there are plans to support real languages in the future.
https://fudzilla.com/news/51416-word...scribe-feature