pocketsphinx

[Robert Simmons]

On Mon, Sep 19, 2011 at 9:59 AM, Jim Tarvid <tarvid at ls.net> wrote:
> I've stared at the myriad of switches on the man pages. I'd like to
> transcribe some podcasts to text. Anybody have advice on how to get started?

So, you are probably looking for speech recognition software.  I've
never used any before, but a google search finds this at the top:
http://cmusphinx.sourceforge.net/