Transcription software?

[Doug]

On 01/02/2013 04:40 PM, JD wrote:
>
> On 01/02/2013 12:47 PM, David Fletcher wrote:
>> A friend has just been made redundant from her work and as a fall-back
>> position is thinking about using her typing skills to transcribe audio
>> recordings into text.
>>
>> I've never been involved with this before but it seems to me what is
>> needed is something that plays audio with foot pedal control while
>> running a text editor at the same time.
>>
>> Doing some digging, there's something called Express Scribe For Linux
>> http://www.winsite.com/Audio/Media-Players/Express-Scribe-For-Linux/
>> but I prefer to go to the Ubuntu repository.
>>
>> Is there anything in the repository that does the job or anything else
>> that can be recommended?
>>
>> Dave
>>
>>
>>
> The best transcription SW I have come across is
> www.nch.com.au/scribe/index.html
> The SW is called Express Scribe
> However, it is not free :(
>
> Cheers,
>
> JD
>
It looks good, but it only runs on windows or Mac O-X. It support
"most major word processors" which surely includes MS Word and
WordPerfect, but it doesn't say what else.
And it will apparently work with speech recognition software.

Finally, there is a free version, but I did not look into its limitations.

--doug