I tried Dragon Naturally Speaking a couple of years ago. (After breaking a wrist in a cycling accident, I figured it might be easier than one-hand typing, which wasn't true in the case of typing programming code with lots of curly brackets, indentation, etc.)
Speech-to-text software works best after a training session, in which the software asks the speaker to read a known text, to calibrate the software. I'm not sure how it might work to calibrate for voices on recordings, but it may be that the software can learn during a proof-reading process. Your success for oral history recordings may depend on the uniqueness of each speakers voice, and the length of each recording. (Lots of short recordings of many different speakers would tend to be harder.) Keith On Wed, May 12, 2010 at 2:18 PM, Eric Lease Morgan <emor...@nd.edu> wrote: > Does anybody here use or know of any audio transcription software? > > We have a growing number of projects here at Notre Dame that include oral > histories. How can these digital files be converted into plain text? Audio > transcription software may be the answer? > > -- > Eric Lease Morgan > University of Notre Dame >