Transcription software?

[JD]

On 01/03/2013 05:16 PM, David Fletcher wrote:
> On Wed, 2013-01-02 at 16:25 -0700, JD wrote:
>> Hi David,
>>
>> If you are not running 12.10, then you might be in luck.
>> Emphasis on 'might'.
>>
>> Try
>>
>>      *sudo add-apt-repository *ppa:frederik-elwert/transcribe* *
>>      *sudo apt-get update*
>>      *sudo apt-get install* *transcribe*
>>
>> it will prompt you
>>
> I tried firing up a 64 bit Natty VM that I built some time back, and
> transcriber is available there. I used aptitude download to get the
> installer, and copied it over to my 12.04.
>
> gdebi installs it OK and it fires up but for starters it appears to have
> "hard-wired" /dev/sound/dsp which appears to not exist, so it's not a
> lot of use.
>
> Dave
Yeah... just as I experienced from untaring
the binary from the online tarball
on the link you sent. When I ran it
it belched out something similar.
Oh well, I am sure I will find others, because I
have some need of voice to text also.