Product Overview: Agora Real-Time Speech to Text
Agora’s Real-Time Speech to Text is a cutting-edge solution designed to provide accurate, efficient, and cost-effective live transcription and subtitling services. This cloud-based technology is integrated with Agora’s advanced network and AI capabilities, making it an ideal solution for enhancing accessibility, improving user experience, and expanding audience reach.
Key Features
Live Transcription
Agora’s Real-Time Speech to Text transcribes live audio and video streams in real-time, converting speech into text to generate live captions. This feature is particularly useful for meetings, live streaming, lectures, interviews, and live shopping events, ensuring that all participants can follow the content accurately.
Speaker Labeling
The solution includes advanced speaker labeling, which allows for the identification and separation of transcripts from multiple speakers, even when up to three speakers are talking simultaneously. This ensures accurate attribution of speech to the correct speaker, enhancing the clarity and usability of the transcripts.
Multi-Language Support
Agora’s Real-Time Speech to Text supports transcription in all major languages and dialects. Additionally, each channel can handle audio-to-text transcription for up to two languages simultaneously, breaking down language barriers and expanding the global reach of your content.
Searchable Transcripts
The transcripts generated by Agora’s solution are searchable, allowing users to find specific words, phrases, and themes across all transcripts. This feature is particularly useful for reviewing and analyzing content from meetings, lectures, or other events.
Integration with Large Language Models (LLMs)
The transcribed text can be seamlessly integrated with LLMs like GPT for further processing, such as generating summaries, notes, and other valuable insights without impacting real-time communication (RTC) performance.
Cloud-Based Transcription
This cloud-based service does not depend on the client’s device performance or network conditions, ensuring consistent and reliable transcription. It converts voice to text for active or specific hosts and distributes the text to all participants in the channel.
Recording Captioning
Agora’s solution also supports the transcription of audio and video recordings, enabling the addition of closed captions (CC) during playback. This feature is beneficial for reviewing important discussion items or making recorded content more accessible.
Enterprise-Grade Security and Compliance
The solution is designed with enterprise-grade security and compliance in mind, ensuring that all transcriptions are handled securely and in accordance with relevant regulations.
Functionality
- Real-Time Transcription for RTC: Integrated with Agora’s voice and video services, this feature enhances accessibility by providing live captions for meetings, live streaming, and other real-time communication scenarios.
- Channel-Based Transcription: The solution can transcribe multiple active hosts in a channel and deliver the transcript to all participants, with pricing based on channel duration rather than the number of users or speakers.
- Silent Audio Removal and Optimization: Advanced technology removes silence, reduces the Word Error Rate (WER), and optimizes performance to reduce costs and improve efficiency.
Applications
Agora’s Real-Time Speech to Text can be applied across various industries to improve user experience and reach larger audiences. It is particularly beneficial for:
- Universities: Providing real-time captions and automatically logging notes for virtual lectures.
- Retail brands: Enhancing live shopping experiences and improving discoverability.
- Call centers: Quickly extracting important information from customer conversations.
- Enterprises: Providing real-time automated notes in meetings to keep everyone aligned in a remote work environment.
In summary, Agora’s Real-Time Speech to Text offers a robust, accurate, and cost-effective solution for live transcription and subtitling, making it an essential tool for enhancing accessibility, improving user experience, and expanding the reach of audio and video content.