Tom: can you record something to a dss file then put it available on a web
page somewhere?



-----Original Message-----
From: Nick Rout [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: Monday, 10 April 2006 3:47 p.m.
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: OT: Transcription software for Linux



On Mon, 10 Apr 2006 14:26:27 +1200
Tom Munro Glass wrote:

> My wife does some part time work transcribing Olympus audio files to
> Office/OpenOffice documents, but since she became a convert a couple of
years 
> ago, she would much prefer to work exclusively in Linux. I'm looking for
some 
> software to play back Olympus .dss files using a foot pedal to control it,

> but so far Google hasn't pointed me in the right direction.
> 
> Anyone know any solutions for this?
> 
> Tom

I looked at these some years ago and IIRC the foot pedal emulated keys on
the keyboard, so it should be easy to hack something up that will start stop
and short rewind some player software. It would be almost trivial in
something like mplayer to re-define the keys that perfomred thjose
functions, so that the keyboard emulating footpedal would work.

But the problem appears to be to actually get something to play .dss files
in linux.

I saw a reference to a windows suite that would play the files, and worked
in wine here: http://www.nch.com.au/scribe/

I am asking about codecs on the mplayer list, but I am not hopeful.



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