Transcription software?

[JD]

On 01/03/2013 07:29 PM, NoOp wrote:
> On 01/03/2013 04:16 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.
> $ apt-cache policy transcribe
> transcribe:
>    Installed: 11.06-public1
>    Candidate: 11.06-public1
>    Version table:
>   *** 11.06-public1 0
>          500 http://ppa.launchpad.net/frederik-elwert/transcribe/ubuntu/
> precise/main amd64 Packages
>          100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
>
> Works for me. I used the first example from:
> http://www.nch.com.au/scribe/practice.html
> and compared with NCH's Express Scribe. Transcribe is (for me)
> considerably clearer & cleaner soundwise out of the box - particularly
> when the file is played at 50%. Perhaps ES can be tweaked to the same
> sound quality as transcribe, but I've not experimented further.
>
> 3.2.0-36-generic #56-Ubuntu SMP Wed Jan 2 21:50:39 UTC 2013 x86_64
> x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
Unfortunately it is not available for 12.10 (quantal).