Though not yet able to fully differentiate between voices, and gumming up especially when two subjects speak at once, Trint did well while transcribing an interview I recorded in a noisy midtown Manhattan cafe. 'The issue is a nice interface is really still needed as the transcription has to be heavily edited after the recognition.' 'Overall, I think it has a state-of-the-art performance with a nice interface,' he says. Using a standard test from ICSI's Meeting Recorder Project, Friedland pushed Trint by feeding it a conversation recorded with an iPhone containing 'overlap, laughter, emotions, and other things that occur in a meeting.' Then he observed how accurately Trint maps the fragments of everyday human speech, if not all of the nuances. Gerald Friedland, director of the audio and multimedia lab at the International Computer Science Institute, was roundly impressed by the interface.
