Ermine.ai is a free and lightweight tool that you can use to Record and Transcribe your voice real time in-browser. The application is powered by Transformer.js which is a library of Transformer machine learning models in addition to a Python package that helps to load and run them. Presently, Ermine.ai supports the transcription of English language only.
Before you start using Ermine.ai, the browser will require to load and initialize the models and this may take some time while they are downloaded and cached in your browser. The later sessions will be much faster as the models have been cached.
How it Works:
1. Navigate to Ermine.ai and click on the button ‘Load Model’ to load and initialize the transcription models. Wait for some time till this process is over and you are navigated to the main page. Grant access to your microphone when you are asked for it.
2. Keep you microphone ready, click on ‘Start Transcribing and record your voice.
3. Ermine transcribes the recorded voice in real time in chunks of 30 seconds each. Hence, if your recording crosses 30 seconds the audio after that will be transcribed in the next chunk and so on and so forth.
4. When you are done with the recording, click on the ‘Stop’ button and be patient while Ermine.ai processes the audio and provides the transcription on the screen.
5. To list to the audio, you can click on the ‘Play’ button. To download the Audio and Transcript of your recording, click on the corresponding button at the bottom of the screen. A Zip file will be downloaded that contains your recorded voice in the OGG file format and a plain text file that contains the transcription.
Closing Comments:
Ermine.ai is an easy-to-use and simple web application to record and transcribe your voice real time in your browser itself.
Click here to navigate to Ermine.ai. To get the source code of the application, click here.
