Greek speech to text on your Mac

The one number came out in digits, “τα 18 δομάτια”, though the speaker said δεκαοκτώ (eighteen). Monday kept its capital, Δευτέρα, but Thursday was written πέμπτη both times, in lower case, which reads as “fifth”.

NoteOwl starts a new line where a speaker pauses, so a line can end in the middle of a phrase, as “από τη” does above, with the next line opening on a capitalised Σελίδα.

Some words were lost or garbled. The opening “Καλημέρα, Νίκο” is missing altogether, πληρωμές με κάρτα (card payments) collapsed into one non-word, πληρομέρτα, δωματίων (of the rooms) became Τοματίων, and ότι (that) appeared twice where nobody said it.

Greek spells one sound several ways, and NoteOwl sometimes picked the wrong one: δομάτια for δωμάτια, Σύμφωνη for Σύμφωνοι, τη βρήκα for τι βρήκα. Twice it wrote the placeholder <unk>, once where a full stop belonged and once in place of a question mark.

In the English beside the sample, square brackets mark the words NoteOwl got wrong or added.

Before you rely on Greek for a long meeting, try NoteOwl on a short recording of your own during the free trial. This sample is standard Greek from Greece; Cypriot Greek and regional accents weren’t tested.

Check it once if your Mac’s language is English, because the menu starts on English there, and while English is pinned, dictation and meetings are written in the Latin alphabet only: no Greek letter can appear. Imported recordings never use the menu; NoteOwl detects their language every time, as it did for this sample.

Greek nouns change their endings, and each form is a different word to a rule: in the sample, δωμάτια and δωματίων went wrong in two different ways. Keep rules for names and terms. A rule τι → τις would also change every real τι (what), as in “τι βρήκα”.