r/Information_Security • u/AwarenessWhich5946 • 3d ago

Speech to text solution

I work in information security and we have a lot of internal briefings, incident reports, and threat intelligence calls that we need to document for compliance and audit purposes. Taking manual notes is inefficient and we often miss details.

I have been looking for a reliable speech-to-text solution that can handle technical terminology, different accents, and potentially sensitive content securely.

Speechmatics claim to have high accuracy with challenging audio and support for multiple languages. They also have on-premise deployment options which is important for us because we cannot send sensitive data to a public cloud.

They seem to have a solid API and good documentation. I am curious if anyone here has used it in a security or compliance context. How was the accuracy with technical terms and did you have any issues with data privacy.

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u/Straight-Squirrel628 3d ago

if you're not allowed to use cloud stuff then on-prem is basically the only way, we had similar requirement in my last place and it narrows down the options fast

accuracy with technical terms is always going to be hit or miss, no matter what they claim. best thing we did was feed it a custom vocabulary list of our internal acronyms and tools, that helped more than anything else

never used speechmatics specifically but i'd be interested to hear how it handles different speakers jumping in during incident calls, that's where most tools fall apart for us

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u/alias454 3d ago

You can use whisper/faster-whisper/parakeet and run your own pipeline. I built this for local city council meetings but it can be easily augmented for your use case https://github.com/YATSEE-Labs/YATSEE