NESTOR Distributed Speech Transcription System

Nestor is a network based distributed transcription and documenting system, designed to make transcription faster, more efficient and of better quality. It provides automated work flow to multiple typists for fast documenting of huge volumes of speech.
Audio data acquired by recording stations and stored at a separate sound server, are subsequently automatically distributed between typists. Each of them then types the transcription of one short sound fragment. All fragments of sound and text are finally connected into a single document. The whole text including linked sound is available at the editor’s workstation to check, correct, print and archive.

APPLICATIONS

Parliaments, Congress Halls, Documentation Departments: Transcription of speeches, meetings, negotiations.

Journalists and News Agencies: Transcription of interviews.

Academic Institutions: Transcription of lectures, congresses, workshops.

HIGHLIGHTS

• All the work flow is automatically controlled by Nestor and managed from the editor’s and administrator’s workstations.
• Workplaces of typists are optimized for maximum comfort and efficiency. The operators enjoy various time- and labor-saving features like Sound Stretcher and frequency adjustment.
• Nestor is fully scalable for large implementations.
• Fast transcription - full text of an event can be obtained in several minutes after the event is finished.
• Information protection - operators can hear only small portions of speech and don’t have access to the whole information.
• Time marks allow checking of transcription quality and make correction an easy task.
• Nestor has performance management, statistics and archiving features.
• Nestor’s work flow engine can process speech coming from several channels simultaneously by different groups of typists in several different languages.
• Nestor can be easily localized for any language.