Speech-to-text Happy Scribe start-up firm expands

Two DCU students have turned their solution to the time-consuming task of transcribing hours of interviews into a start-up business, attracting more than 4,000 users of the application in five months.

André Bastié and Marc Assens, who are taking part in the UStart, an accelerator programme at DCU’s Ryan Academy, set up Happy Scribe in their living room when they found that there was a huge demand for the service, which converts speech to text from audio files.

Mr Bastié was working on a research project about social entrepreneurs in Ireland as part of his master’s in electronic commerce in DCU.