There are now many providers of automatic speech recognition. The systems differ in terms of - recognition rate (how many words are correctly recognised) - spelling and punctuation - format (e.g. with or without speaker assignment) - usability (usability as a programme, app or only via API interface) - price and billing model Google Speech-to-Text and Nuance (Dragon ) achieve good results for the German language. Overall, the best systems currently achieve a recognition rate of approx. 67% under good conditions, i.e. approx. 67 words are recognised correctly for 100 words. A manual Transcription system has a recognition rate of approx. 97%.