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Beth Worthy
4/2/2019
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Although speech recognition technology has improved considerably; it is no match to human transcriptionists in achieving accuracy.
Speech recognition software that is commercially available shows an average error rate of about 12% while transcribing phone conversations.
At GMR Transcription, our very competent team of transcriptionists, selected after rigorous screening tests and having several years of hands-on experience, transcribe with an error rate of just 1% for similar audio.
Not only that, a second human proofreader also reviews the transcript for accuracy.
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