[1] Transcriptionists can replay a recording several times in a transcription editor and type what they hear.
Depending on quality of recordings, machine generated transcripts may still need to be manually verified.
The accuracy rate of the automatic transcription depends on several factors such as background noises, speakers' distance to the microphone, and accents.
[2] Compared with audio content, a text transcript is searchable, takes up less computer memory, and can be used as an alternate method of communication, such as for subtitles and closed captions.
[11][12][13][14] OpenAI launched Whisper, an open-source speech recognition deep learning model in September 2022.