Hi everyone, Emily here! I am so glad you are here on my channel today. I have a
special guest my husband, Joel. Hello, I am ecstatic to be here. I'm so glad you're here too.
We're going to have such a fun time today. So today, we are going to go over three
speech-to-text apps that can help you during this "maskageddon". So if you
haven't seen it already, I created a video and posted it last week about five
ways to survive the "maskageddon". Some of those ways are by using speech-to-text
apps. So I wanted to go in-depth with that and that's why I have Joel with me
today and I'm so excited to show you guys these three speech-to-text apps.
Let's do it! Perfect let's do this! Okay so today,
we're going to test these apps and we're taking a couple different things into
account: everything from 1. app ratings to the 2. privacy policies. (just read those it's
always good to read those), 3. usability (like user interface) and most important
4. accuracy. Here we go. So if you haven't already, please like and subscribe to my
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content that I put out. I am just so glad you're here and I hope that you can
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videos is to increase awareness for the D/deaf and the hard of hearing. I have hearing aids, too.
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this video. Here we go, okay I hope you stick around to the end
of this video because at the end, I'm going to share something that I saw on
Instagram earlier this week and share a story of like what this post reminded me
of. I want to share personal experiences with dealing with hearing loss so at the
end of the video I'll share your story so stick around here we go, we're going to
jump into our rankings and favorites of these three speech-to-text apps. Here we go.
Okay, here are the top three speech-to-text
apps. So to test this out, Joel is going to put on a mask and as you can see
not my typical "seeing easy" mask that we D/deaf and hard-of-hearing people prefer
it is a normal mask because unfortunatel, not everyone that has one
of these so if you want to make one of these I made a video about how to make
one I'll link it up above and down below but be sure you check that out. So here
we go, let's jump into these apps. Joel is all masked up and ready, okay so here we go.
We're gonna jump right into our speech-to-text app test. So the first one
I'm going to start with is Speechy! So Speechy, when I downloaded it from the
app store it was free, it downloaded quickly and when I opened it I could
just hit record and go. It was super easy, simple, quick to use so here we go! Let the
challenge begin! Okay Joel, how are you doing today? I am doing splended, thank you.
You're welcome. How are you? I'm doing well. What has been
the best part of your day so far? I bought a desk at a garage sale, sanded it
down with you, and put laminate paper on it. And it looks pretty good, huh? It looks
dang good. It looks really good. I think that was
one of my favorite parts too. I really enjoyed meeting the people that sold it
to us we bought it on one of those just community garage sale pages and it ended
out being a big blessing. It ended out working out for us.
So why did we get you a new desk? I have to work from home for the next
eight months. I think you can relate with a lot of people. Well, there we have it!
There's Speechy! You can see the accuracy in the transcript and just how simple
and easy it is. Was it accurate? I mean sort of. What do you think? It calls me
Joe. It does call you Joe. Joel, Joel the L
is hard...
The L is hard to hear. So Speechy, it's okay. What do you think What
do you think? Could be better. It could be better. Do you think it's like better
than nothing though? Well yeah! I think It's better than nothing so Speechy
easy, basic, it's kind of like you get what you pay
for. You didn't pay anything so you get something though, so it's worth it and
better than nothing. Awesome, tryout Speechy. Okay app number
two: Ava so it is Ava, A-V-A. here we go so when I
pulled up Ava first thing I noticed is that when I download it it is free. Wahoo
but you have to create an account so you have to log in, confirm your email, it
also allows you those to connect with groups and the user interface is really
fun but I kind of was bummed that I had to open up my phone and make an account.
So it takes time [to set up] just keep that into account. But oh my goodness I opened it
and here I'm talking and it is just, going it just started going. That is so
accurate. Yeah, there you go. You guys can see that. I'll share the screen recording
This is the second test for the app. That's pretty good. Okay, let's go ahead
and try it. So I'm gonna look at it and go ahead and ask me some questions and
I'm going to answer them without looking at you so no visual cues. What is better?
Marvel or DC Comics? Ooh Marvel, Marvel all the way. Would you
rather date Thor or Ironman? Uh, on here it says store... mmm probably shouldn't a
date a store. No, I couldn't I don't want a date a store. Why did you not
... but for the record Ironman, Ironman for the record. Why did you not finish
watching Guardians of the Galaxy? I did finish. I did, I watched that movie. Did I
fall asleep? No you didn't like it so we stopped.
When? Next question!
Okay, awesome! Well, uh it definitely did an impressive job again screen recording.
Check it out. I really like that on this app you can adjust the text size.
You can see it in real-time. It identifies different voices so my voice
is in blue. Joel's is in white, that's pretty neat.
and you can add participants so Joel... Oh, no way way... could hold his phone and so if we're in a
busy situation, he could talk into his phone and I could just read off of mine.
That's pretty neat. My turn, my turn: test test.
I like this app way more. You like this one way more so you're like giving
points to Ava? Ava is Joel's winner right now.
Ava is in first place. Okay, awesome okay
well there you have that usability test we like Ava, so there we have reached a
consensus on Ava we think Ava is great. Check out Ava. Okay next we are going to
test out Otter.ai so here we go Otter.ai. I will admit kind of has my heart in
terms of usability but I had never tried out Ava
before this so Otter.ai and Ava are going head-to-head. Who do you think will win??
Let's see. Okay, here we go Joel. I'm going to go ahead and turn on the record button I
can add a title so I'm just going to say "YouTube video" and enter and it's going
it's recording already. So here you go, go ahead. What is your favorite
fruit and why? Star fruit it looks like a star and it tastes really good.
Okay star fruit, I did not know that. How do you feel about papayas? Don't care for
them. You don't care for papayas, why not? Honestly ,I can't recall what that is. I
asked you about a fruit that you didn't know about I feel like that's slightly cheating.
Oh probably okay how you feel about bananas? We eat those all the time
bananas with Nutella. They're great with Nutella. They are great with Nutella. I'm so
glad you agree with me. And strawberries. Yeah, if you want a good treat: Nutella and
strawberries. Awesome, I feel like it is catching on pretty well and it's
recording pretty well too, it's accurate. But the thing is it does not record your
voice like I thought it would. But it's time-stamped... yeah it is timestamped so
like if you were in a lecture or a meeting of some sort it's kind of nice
because your brain is taking account of like what came first and what came last
like chronologically speaking.. so are you supposed to add someone? What does that
do? I can add someone, yeah so like I can send you the notes or the transcript.
So more one-way then. It's giving me a little bit it's not separating our
text though... No, it's not. I do have the basic version though so you get six
hundred free minutes every 29 days. (Interesting metric.) So awesome, there we
go. Okay, well based on the formats we've
seen... [DRUMROLL] ... Ava! Ava!
Okay, I would agree with you, um I think that Ava's user interface was definitely
a lot better I really liked that you can add people on the conversation. I really
liked how accurate it was and how the colors change. And it was zoomed in. It was zoomed in.
Yeah... see your text you could read it mm-hmm I agree. Okay, well the
speech-to-text app winner of the day is Ava! Congratulations
Ava! I know an app is not a person but there you have it so I hope that you
take time to test out different speech-to-text apps. Find the one that you like
best use all of them in different situations ,give them a good hard test,
and figure out which one works for you and use it. You know, we D/deaf and hard of
hearing people are in the time of the world that it's like the best time to be
D/deaf and hard of hearing because if we choose to use hearing assistive devices,
they are available to us so don't be afraid to get tech savvy and use lots of
different apps. So I'm so glad you stuck around to the end of this video. Joel are
you glad too? Yeah he's so glad. Do you want to take that off? If you want you can take it off. Joel is going to leave it on.
So you stuck around to the end of this video, I want to share a little
story: so this week on Instagram I was thumbing through and an ad from Target
came up. Check it out. It reminded me about the time that I was in Target. I was in
the toy aisle and a girl came up to me and she said "Why do you have Starbursts
in your ears?" and I was like "What?" at first I didn't understand what she was asking
and then I realized oh my goodness, she's referring to my hearing aids at the time
I had swirled neon pink, orange ,and yellow hearing aids they were bright and
I loved them. I just never had any shame at all of just like
having hearing aids and wearing them and owning them. So I just thought that
was such a fun little interesting story. Have you ever had people asked you about
your hearing aid, or your cochlear implant, or your BAHA, or just your
hearing in general? If so, I want to hear about it in the comments below. I am so
glad you've been here today Joel's glad too.
So we are so glad you're here today please take a chance to like and
subscribe to my channel. I really hope you enjoyed this video and please take
time to add in the comments below about any experiences you have or if you have
any other speech-to-text apps I would love to hear about them. So ... You're awesome!
Thank you! I hope you guys have a great day and we'll talk to you again soon! Bye!
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