How do I transcribe a quicktime audio recording into words, such as a Microsoft Word document?

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How do I transcribe a quicktime audio recording into words, such as a Microsoft Word document?

Hi, I recently did an interview for a school project over FaceTime. I recorded it using Quicktime, and it is an audio file. I have to turn in the interview questions and answers into my teacher, and even though I took notes, I would really like it if I could have the answers typed out exactly how they were said. So I was wondering if there was a way to transcribe my Quicktime audio recording into text, like a Microsoft Word document. Does anyone know how to do this? Please help! Thanks!

-Ryan

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Posted on Nov 19, 2014 12:55 PM

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mns579

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Nov 19, 2014 7:58 PM in response to candll

Sorry, no inexpensive application will convert an audio conversation into text. Current "dictation" applications sort of work only for relatively slow, carefully articulated, uniform-volume speech--that is, the sort of speech you use when you're conscious that you're speaking (dictating) so that a computer can recognize it--but applications that can reliably convert continuous, free-flowing, variable-volume, multi-party conversation into text (à la CNN live captioning) haven't yet arrived in the consumer market.

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