From speech to text
For humans, speech is a natural means of communication. It’s quick, easy, and frees up your hands for other tasks. We can convert speech into text in real time and help improve the efficiency of various functions through speech. We know the language and bring solutions to where speech is used so that the user can focus on the essentials.
Texts of better quality faster than before
Whether it is a matter of finding or creating information, transferring routine tasks from people to machines is worth the effort. Costs are reduced, time is saved and work becomes more meaningful, while the number of human errors is reduced.
Speech recognition improves productivity and efficiency. It reduces the time spent on recording entries, leaving more time for expert work and customer service. At the same time, recorded information is available more quickly to other experts and customers, which makes the service smoother and improves customer satisfaction.
“Launching the speech recognition service provided by Lingsoft was easy, it was effortless to use and recognition results were almost error-free.”
“By far the best speech recognition service I have ever tried.”
“I think I can finish my tasks a lot faster than by typing.”
“It recognizes even very difficult words and tenses, such as “jouhevoitettua”.
“My own experience is that speech recognition works brilliantly, and it has been a great help. Hopefully (our use) will continue even after the trial period.”
Accurately, easily, safely
Accurate recognition results
Structural analysis of human language is at work behind Lingsoft’s service and ensures that the system is genuinely familiar with the intricacies of the Finnish language. This core element for solutions developed by Lingsoft itself, combined with high-quality and versatile language models, ensures the most accurate recognition results available at today’s market. Furthermore, we are able to customise language models to recognise special terminology of highly specialised professions.
Data security
Lingsoft has long-standing experience with customers handling sensitive data, and we are committed to strictly complying with all data protection regulations. In all our operations, we employ technical and organisational safeguards to ensure that all personal information is processed safely. For us, it is of utmost importance that our customers can trust us.
Ease of use
Rapid deployment is supported by the clear user interface of Lingsoft speech recognition. Also worth noting is that the user can use voice commands to control dictation during dictation. A phraseological function is also available to enable the dictating person to create and use repetitive text fragments that they have defined. Our solution is also speaker-independent and does not need to be separately trained. The service is a true turnkey solution.
Quality assurance tools
Real-time speech recognition is accompanied by aquality checkerfor text, which helps ensure high quality results effortlessly. The dictating person is also assisted by other tools which facilitate text editing.
Extensive range of solutions
The customer can utilise speech recognition in real time, so that the dictating person can check and use the text immediately. The Speech Recognition Service also recognises separate, existing audio files. Recognition can also be used as background support for the dictation process to save word processors’ time and facilitate their work.
Cloud service
The browser-based service is available 24 hours a day. This is a zero-installation solution which works everywhere and every hour of the day. In addition, Lingsoft’s voice recognition solution can be integrated with other systems through application protocol interfaces (APIs).
Customer stories
Speech recognition can be utilised wherever you want to convert speech into text or use speech for controlling devices or software. Our solutions are being utilised by the health care sector, public administration and by the media.
We support growth in your organisation
Read about the customer benefits below and take full advantage of the expertise and service offered by the leading language technology company.
Productivity
We use language intelligence solutions to eliminate friction in language processes, improve content design productivity and enhance multilingual communication.
Reliability
We are a reliable partner. We comply with security and privacy regulations and ensure that your data and content are safe. We keep our promises, regardless of whether they apply to the quality of our service or the reliability of our technology.
Interoperability
We ensure that our language services and language intelligence solutions integrate seamlessly with business processes through standardised interfaces. We also help ensure the semantic interoperability of data, which makes data management and processing more efficient.
What is quality of speech recognition made of?
Technologies developed for English are often not the best starting point for Finnish speech recognition. The reason for this is obvious. If all inflected forms of nouns, adjectives and verbs were actually used, the Finnish language corpus would have the same amount of entries as the whole universe is expected to have stars. It would be utterly impossible to gather such a vast, comprehensive material base and teach it to machines. The sheer amount of work would be daunting.
At the core of Lingsoft’s language technology solutions lies language structure analysis which, to put it simply, means teaching the rules of inflecting and forming of a word to a machine. The word can then be identified in all its inflected forms in free text of the background material. In other words, teaching new words to the speech recognition system does not require all forms of inflection of a single word.
It is also relevant what kind of linguistic material the dictating person is using. In professionally specialised language, vocabulary is more limited than in general language, so the accuracy of recognition becomes better as the specificity of language increases. In addition to general language settings, Lingsoft also offers customised language models for recognising specialised terminology of professionally specific language settings, such as the health care sector. A solution that genuinely understands the Finnish language combined with a correctly selected language model ensures a speech recognition result where the dictating person or word processor is left with little, if any, content to be further stylised.
Speech recognition process the way you need it
There are different ways to produce text using speech. Different recognition methods are not mutually exclusive, and the same solution can support multiple use cases.
Foreground speech recognition – speech to text in real time
Foreground speech recognition means converting speech into text almost in real time. In this case, the speech recognition result is displayed to the dictating person, so that they can verify the text and edit it as needed instantly. Editing a high-quality speech recognition result is quick and the desired information is immediately captured.
Background speech recognition – speech recognition as an integrated part of production process
As its name implies, background speech recognition takes place in the background of the dictation process. Background speech recognition often improves the efficiency of centralised word processing either within the organisation or when outsourced. Background speech recognition is utilised in the dictation decoding, transcription, and programme subtitling services provided by Lingsoft.
Voice command recognition – controlling user interface with speech
Voice command recognition can be used to control the functions of a device or software. The functions are predefined and the speech recognition model is optimised to recognise words or phrases used as commands. In addition, the commands are used as part of solutions based on background and foreground speech recognition, such as dictation decoding for healthcare sector or programme subtitling solution. In addition to continuous speech recognition, commands can be used, for example, to insert a line-break, delete words, or introduce a predefined phrase.