There is no audio/video limitation on spokendata free plan now.

We changed the way how we limit the processed data for free accounts. To get a free SpokenData account, register here.

We previously had a hard limit of processed data set to 15 minutes. All data you uploaded over this limit was trimmed and discarded. So if you uploaded 25 minutes of audio or video and wanted the automatic transcript for free, you got only 15 minutes long video/audio with the transcript in your dashboard later (after the processing finished).

Currently, we do not limit your data upload. We just limit the length of the transcript we provide you for free. So if you upload 25 minute long video/audio, you will find the whole (25 minute long) video/audio in your dashboard. The generated transcript has the length limit set to 15 minutes, so you will see only the first 15 minutes of transcript for your data. But if you want, you can easily create the rest of the transcript for free yourself - this was not possible in the previous version because the video was trimmed.

We hope you welcome this change.

..and stay tuned. More interesting things are coming soon..

Why do we need your speech data

Our several year experience in speech technology research and business shows often clash between:

Speech technology provider: "Give us some of your speech data for testing purposes please."

and

Customer: "No way! Our speech data is our private and secret property."

So let discuss several WHYs.

Why the speech technology provider wants the customer's data?

The speech technologies are very complex and sensitive to match between model and the data. This is common problem in the whole field of machine learning. Once you feed the classifier with "already seen" data, everything goes well. Accuracy of such algorithm is great.
The problem occurs when you put an unseen data into the algorithm - data which was not seen during training and developing. It is like, people living in US understands English because it is their already seen data, but does not understand Japanese because it is their unseen data during the training phase (childhood).