SpeakWrite transcribes your message and emails it back to you, typically within 2 hours.

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At the moment, the romanization scene is essentially a free-for-all in which each person transcribes words and names according to whim.

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Like reQall, Jott transcribes voice messages and e-mails them to users.

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U.S.-based computer professional Avinash Chopde has created ITRANS, a program that transcribes words into Indian scripts, including Hindi, Marathi, Gujarati, Telugu and Sanskrit.

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Users can also speak memos and Keep transcribes them.

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AskForCents exists because of the Turk, as does CastingWords, a service that transcribes spoken audio files using people who have computer access and some time to kill housewives, night-shift security guards and so on.

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Aside from tapping out a note, you can also store photos in the app, and you can record voice notes, which Keep then transcribes into text, so you can read or listen to them later.

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Though it transcribes all of the speech pulled out of videos from its content partners, it only runs other videos through speech-recognition software when there isn't enough metadata with the files for the search engine to figure out what it contains.

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