OAKLAND, CALIF. – Aug. 14, 2013 – Livescribe Inc. (www.livescribe.com) today announced a collaboration with crowdsourcing technology company TranscribeMe to provide Livescribe smartpen customers a simple, integrated solution for transcribing their recorded audio notes. By simply tagging a pencast through Evernote or by uploading it to the TranscribeMe website, smartpen notetakers can automatically send their audio recordings to TranscribeMe and receive a transcription within one to two days for a small fee. Transcribed notes are integrated into customers’ existing Evernote accounts or delivered to their email inboxes. This functionality is now available to all Livescribe smartpen customers along with an exclusive introductory offer of five free minutes for transcription services from TranscribeMe.
How Livescribe Customers Will Benefit from TranscribeMe
After signing up for TranscribeMe, owners of the Sky wifi smartpen will find a new folder in their personal Evernote account. By simply dragging pencasts or audio recordings into this folder, the content will be sent directly to TranscribeMe for transcription. This can also be achieved by tagging pencasts with “TranscribeMe” in Evernote. Echo smartpen owners can email their recordings to Evernote, and then either drag the files to the TranscribeMe folder or tag them.
TranscribeMe boasts a 98 percent accuracy rate of all transcriptions and guarantees this by having both speech recognition software and actual human transcribers work on the transcriptions.
Single speaker recordings (such as dictations, podcasts, lectures, conferences, and meeting notes) can be transcribed at a rate of $1 per minute, while recordings with multiple speakers (such as business meetings, interviews, discussion panels, or talk shows) are transcribed for $2 per minute, with special rates available for corporate and high-volume use.
For more information, please visit Livescribe’s Noteworthy blog at http://www.livescribe.com/blog/noteworthy/2013/08/14/introducing-audio-transcription-with-transcribeme/.
For more information on using TranscribeMe, Livescribe customers can visit http://www.transcribeme.com/livescribe.
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About Livescribe
Livescribe brings notes, words and ideas to life. Livescribe smartpens make it easy to connect paper and pen to the digital world and fundamentally change the way people capture, access and share what they write, draw and hear. Livescribe’s new wireless smartpen, together with cloud services make it simple to save, find and playback important meetings, lectures and memories any time, anywhere on nearly any tablet, smartphone and computer. www.livescribe.com.
About TranscribeMe
TranscribeMe is a new kind of voice-to-text transcription company. Based in the San Francisco Bay Area and New Zealand, it makes the fast-growing amount of audio and video content easy to search and analyze, using a hybrid model of speech processing technology plus a crowdsourced human transcriber platform. Industry leaders use this service to convert their audio and video content into an easily sharable, searchable, and profitable format. With superior confidentiality and accuracy, TranscribeMe’s services allow for on-the-go transcription via their mobile app, as well as perfect recall and rapid analysis of critical content, including conferences, speeches, meeting notes, interviews, sales calls, and more. www.transcribeme.com.
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