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Transcription for audio files in different languages not working
transcription feature not working!
Hi I uploaded a few audio files in different languages which worked fine for the cc caption transcription. Now any audio file takes ages pending transcription the...
Thank you, Nancy 👍.
Today , 18 January 2024, I can happily report that the transcription malfunction issue on Dropbox.com is 100% resolved. Ben from the Dropbox advanced support team let me know that on 17 January the engineering team implemented some more changes and that seems to have resolved everything perfectly.
Thank goodness, I can’t do without Dropbox hugely impressive transcription function anymore.
I am very pleased with Dropbox’s customer support, here on the forum and via email. Also the engineering team was able to fix this serious issue in a matter of days. Thank you all!
With kind regards,Grover.
Just stopped about 3 days ago. Now it just wheels for 10 minutes or so and then gives a generic error message. Tried with various browsers, private settings, browsers updated/reinstalled, VPN on/off etc., cache cleared ... "There was an error loading the transcript." Anyone else getting this? Any solutions?
- Megan
Dropbox Staff
Hey Simon Heywood, welcome to our Community!
Can you kindly send me a screenshot of the error message you mentioned above, in order for me to have a visual?
Let me know more, and we'll take it from there!
- Hannah
Hey Simon Heywood, can you let us know which is your preferred browser and which version you're using? Is it the most recent one?
Tried with various browsers, all updated to recent versions.
I've been getting the 4-minute cut-off which others have described. My problem now is that I can't seem to go back and transcribe complete versions of the large number of 20 and 30 minute files that were cut off at 4 minutes. There are inaccuracies in the transcripts but I can mostly live with that for my purposes.
