Re: [CODE4LIB] audio transcription software

2010-05-13 Thread Perry Willett
I just ran across this yesterday: Rest in Peas: the unrecognized death of speech recognition by Robert Fortner: http://robertfortner.posterous.com/the-unrecognized-death-of-speech-reco gnition http://bit.ly/aFuI70 Perry Willett California Digital Library perry.will...@ucop.edu --

Re: [CODE4LIB] audio transcription software

2010-05-13 Thread Kristina Long
I've saw a reference to some software called IBM ViaScribe when reading about a project that converts lectures to text (http://www.liberatedlearning.com/technology/index.shtml) a while back. Kristina CODE4LIB automatic digest system wrote:

Re: [CODE4LIB] audio transcription software

2010-05-13 Thread Markus Wust
Eric, I tried Docsoft:AV (http://www.docsoft.com/Products/AV/), a server-based solution, about a year ago to see whether we could use it to automatically transcribe and timestamp our oral history recordings. It might work nicely if you had multiple recordings with the same speakers where it wo

Re: [CODE4LIB] audio transcription software

2010-05-12 Thread Diane Bédard
I've had modest success with "MacSpeech Dictate". It uses the same engine as Dragon Naturally Speaking, but has none of the canned read-back training that Dragon requires. I've been testing it with good quality recordings of our local veterans.(already in digital format on CD) The process I've ha

Re: [CODE4LIB] audio transcription software

2010-05-12 Thread Hagedon, Mike
ehalf Of Eric Lease Morgan Sent: Wednesday, May 12, 2010 2:30 PM To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] audio transcription software On May 12, 2010, at 2:24 PM, Jonathan Rochkind wrote: > Do you mean software to aid a human transcriber, or do you mean software > that can actu

Re: [CODE4LIB] audio transcription software

2010-05-12 Thread Rees, John (NIH/NLM) [E]
this again after echoing a 60 minute film. In the end we are outsourcing the bulk of our transcriptioning. John -Original Message- From: Keith Jenkins [mailto:k...@cornell.edu] Sent: Wednesday, May 12, 2010 2:47 PM To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] audio transcriptio

Re: [CODE4LIB] audio transcription software

2010-05-12 Thread Kyle Banerjee
On Wed, May 12, 2010 at 11:46 AM, Keith Jenkins wrote: > 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 br

Re: [CODE4LIB] audio transcription software

2010-05-12 Thread Ryan Eby
depending on your budget there are quite a few services available to do it for you. some include time-code information depending on what interfaces you want to build. came across this list in someone's delicious feed on here: http://www.uiaccess.com/transcripts/transcript_services.html eby On W

Re: [CODE4LIB] audio transcription software

2010-05-12 Thread Rosalyn Metz
youtube actually does this automatically (but only in english). but i'm not going to lie, it sucks. however maybe that's just my voice since i'm always stuffed up. On Wed, May 12, 2010 at 3:24 PM, Brad Rhoads wrote: > A great quality service is http://on-sitemedia.com/. I have no idea what s

Re: [CODE4LIB] audio transcription software

2010-05-12 Thread Brad Rhoads
A great quality service is http://on-sitemedia.com/. I have no idea what she charges. Google for open source speech recognition On Wed, May 12, 2010 at 1:05 PM, Sean Hannan wrote: > Not software, exactly, but this seems like an ideal thing to set up in > Mechanical Turk. > > This guy did it wit

Re: [CODE4LIB] audio transcription software

2010-05-12 Thread Sean Hannan
Not software, exactly, but this seems like an ideal thing to set up in Mechanical Turk. This guy did it with an audio interview: http://waxy.org/2008/09/audio_transcription_with_mechanical_turk/ -Sean On 5/12/10 2:18 PM, "Eric Lease Morgan" wrote: > Does anybody here use or know of any audio

Re: [CODE4LIB] audio transcription software

2010-05-12 Thread Joel Marchesoni
c Lease Morgan Sent: Wednesday, May 12, 2010 2:30 PM To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] audio transcription software On May 12, 2010, at 2:24 PM, Jonathan Rochkind wrote: > Do you mean software to aid a human transcriber, or do you mean software > that can actually use

Re: [CODE4LIB] audio transcription software

2010-05-12 Thread Keith Jenkins
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 af

Re: [CODE4LIB] audio transcription software

2010-05-12 Thread Eric Lease Morgan
On May 12, 2010, at 2:24 PM, Jonathan Rochkind wrote: > Do you mean software to aid a human transcriber, or do you mean software > that can actually use voice recognition to turn audio to text all > automated? I am interested in the later -- software that converts audio files in to text files

Re: [CODE4LIB] audio transcription software

2010-05-12 Thread Jonathan Rochkind
Do you mean software to aid a human transcriber, or do you mean software that can actually use voice recognition to turn audio to text all automated? I am curious if there's anything in the latter quality actually good enough for "oral histories" with their possibly various voices and qualitie