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>Subject: Re: #7421 transcription - modelling the dictaphone with modern equipment

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I would also be interested to know what's available for digital audio 
transcription. I have done a little research and have come up mostly 
empty. Last year, we had a department that wanted to transcribe the 
audio portion of a videotaped presentation, and we resorted to the 
following: digitize the audio, burn it to CD, then make an audio 
cassette from the CD so they could use their transcription machine. 
We couldn't go direct from video to audio tape because we don't have 
a cassette recorder with audio inputs and the sound wasn't clear 
enough just playing the video into the condenser mic.

If you can get a clear enough digital recording, you could use speech 
recognition software for a first pass at transcription in English, 
but I don't know how well that would work for other languages.

Judi

>I am looking for something to model the old dictaphone in the
>past, particuarly the ease and hands-free motion of the foot
>mechanism (or at least something that will make it easy to
>rewind/fast forward without slowing the process too much).  As
>well, maybe something that has the capability of slowing the speed
>of the speech for linguistical research purposes?
>
>
>Deanne Cobb
>Language Lab Manager
>Language Resource Centre
>University of Regina


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