Voice to text

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Level 1

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Voice to text

I need to transcribe a few hours of audio. I see a lot of speech recognition software out there that will cost more to buy than for me to pay somebody to type the audio in. Is there any economical software out there that really works - that I can feed a .wav or .mp3 file to and it'll convert it to text?

Mac OS X (10.5)

Posted on Oct 27, 2010 6:36 PM

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Answer 1

jsd2

Level 5

6,245 points

Oct 27, 2010 6:59 PM in response to rhys sage

Do you have an iPhone or iPad? If so, check out the Dragon Dictation app. It may not meet your needs, but it can't hurt to try - I think it is still free.

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Kappy

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Oct 27, 2010 7:20 PM in response to rhys sage

On the Mac there is only Dragon Dictate from MacSpeech.com.

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tanvi12

Level 1

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Jul 25, 2013 2:39 AM in response to rhys sage

I would recommend you to stick with the manual transcription due to the accuracy flaws in even the most expensive software. You can fix up a provider for better pricing but do not move over to any software for sure.

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