Transcribe your speech using Textify
Textify is an English Text recognition and transcription app that uses HMS ML kit. Textify is available on the Huawei App Gallery for free.
Textify allows users to recognize English text from images as well as convert the speech-to-text and save it directly to their device as a text file. This helps them to quickly access and share the recognized text.
Textify differs from its competitors by allowing the user to save the recognized text rather than copying it into the clipboard and having to manually past it somewhere like a notepad.
This article will introduce you to the transcription service provided by Textify.
The first screen to pop-up upon opening the app is the login screen, which you can authenticate using your huawei ID.
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After logging in via hauwei ID you will be redirected to the main menu screen.
Here, you will be greeted with a good morning/evening/afternoon/night text based on the time of the day and your name which is obtained from your huawei account. Textify provides two functions : Text recognition from images and live speech-to-text transcription. Text recognition from images is covered in another article here. This article focuses on the transcription service. Transcription can be selected by clicking the uppermost icon.
The transcription page contains two buttons to start and stop speech transcription respectively. On clicking the start button(Uppermost), it begins transcribing the audio it receives via the microphone. It uses the cloud based real-time transcription service provided by HMS core, so it requires an active internet connection throughout the transcription. Once you have transcribed the required speech, click the stop button, which will take you to the result page where the transcribed text will be displayed.
The result page shows either the text recognized from an image or text obtained from transcription based on the service you used. Below the text display window there is a save button, which saves the text as a text file to a desired location on the device.
Textify can be used for a variety of day-to-day tasks such as taking lecture notes as well as converting a text from a picture directly to an editable text file. What makes Textify different from other apps available on the market is its ability to store the data as text files immediately with the tap of a single button.
For more information regarding Textify, head over to this article on Introduction to Textify.
Textify is available on HMS App Gallery.
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