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I use my Google Voice number on my resume, to prevent recruiters from calling my cell phone directly. I've noticed that clear speakers with the classic "TV American" dialect are transcribed pretty well. However, if they have even the slightest bit of a different dialect, especially Indian or Southeastern US, or if they mumble a bit, then it's hilariously bad.

Stuff like this:

    hi  zack  this  is  anyhow  calling  from  a  car  
    and  i  actually  i  was  looking  part  of  the
    apartment  but  i  might  come  across  your  profile
    on  the  google  search  in  hi  i  understand  you're
    looking  for  approximately  400  caveman  income
    which  is  definitely  i  can  talk  to  you  but  i
    was  just  wondering  that  if  you  know  anyone  and
    some  yesterday  and  so  and  relatives  so  of
    because  the  anyway  i  was  looking  for  a  job
    for  their  business  hey  can  you  please  a
    deficit  to  me  on  my  email  address  is  and  and
    it's  shannon  N  T  S  as  in  sam  but  i  am  E  T
    oddity  of  I  T  dot  com  i  repeat  it  and  and
    at  the  car  dot  com  on  if  you  can  divert  my
    call  at  84  so  i'm  fine  i  need  to  little
    photo  a  photo  extension  8  if  i'm  not  i  repeat
    841  598  double  total  of  4  extension  8811  that
    would  be  great  thanks  so  much  for  your  time



My experience is that recruiters (and other people who leave a lot of voice mail) seem to be relatively easy for Google Voice to transcribe:

"matt hey this is todd johnson i work over dates 10 capital hey i wanted to see if you knew of anyone open for new projects we've got up i've done contract role that just popped in if you have a chance feel free to give me a call (206) 300-2120 to seattle based company python project 6 months see if you might be interested in that again this is todd johnson over it's 10 capital thanks"

Whereas casual callers talk faster and tend to get transcribed like this:

"hello it's sarah this is christal donna considering it's jamie at coming thanks bye"

What I really like is the feature in the new Android app that highlights each work of the transcript while playing the audio, and lets you skip to any word just by touching it.




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