Possibly not so useful for straightforward documents, but...
Last year, a team of 3 of us worked on the transcription and translation of 9 pages of Latin Manorial rolls from the late 17th century. Just the transcription stage took several weeks because of the handwriting ('is that a c or a t? an o or an e?') and the plentiful abbreviations used in legal Latin of the period.
We than had to slog through the translation to English, plus producing name and place indexes and summaries of the property transactions involved...
Overall the project took just under a year (admittedly things slowed down while I had a heart transplant). The results are now available at the Dorset History Centre, Hertfordshire Archives and via the Stalbridge History Society.
The same team are now embarking on another set of Dorset Manorial rolls -- 123 pages of mixed English and Latin from the same period.
Using Transkribus, I've got a first pass rough transcription in a few hours. We'll still need to refine it, including Latin abbreviations, and do the translation, but I reckon we'll get it all done in under 6 months. Significantly faster
. And that's before I explore what ChatGPT can offer in the summarisation and name indexing spaces.=====================================================
And on the subject of Parrots... has anyone tried parrot.ai?
I don't have a suitable .wav file, but I've heard good reports about its ability to produce transcriptions of oral interviews. (I've also heard it has problems with Dorset accents, but don't we all
?)
