INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
Trint, the London-based transcription startup founded by Emmy-winning journalist Jeff Kofman, has raised $4.5 million in Series A
funding.The round includes follow-on investment from Horizons Lab, the Hong Kong-based seed fund operated by the managers of Horizons
founding in December 2014
and speech-to-text technology to automate transcribing, which is a significant pain-point for journalists and other content producers, such
as video makers.The web-based software also combines an audio/video player and text editor, with the outputted transcription synced to the
This then makes it easy to manually correct any mistranscriptions, which, in turn, helps Trint get smarter
and found the automation to be fairly accurate
However, as with similar systems, it is quite dependent on the audio quality you feed into it.On that note, Trint says it will use the
additional funding to enhance the AI transcription software and enable customers to extract more value from recorded audio and video and
the workflow of large teams working with audio and video
The idea is to enable teams to work together on editing transcripts and publishing content.Trint will also release a new video player with
This includes opening a North American headquarters in Toronto, where seven employees are posted.
