Transcription software?

[David Fletcher]

On Wed, 2013-01-02 at 15:13 -0700, JD wrote:
> >
> > 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.
> All you have to do is untar it and run
> sh scribe
> it will indeed belch out some errors, which do not seem
> to prevent the gui from coming up.
> It killer flaw is that it has the wrong value of the sound card hard coded.
> To wit:
> (scribe:8500): LIBDBUSMENU-GLIB-WARNING **: Unable to get session bus: 
> The connection is closed
> ALSA lib pcm_hw.c:1401:(_snd_pcm_hw_open) Invalid value for card

I can't get it installed. I set up a VM to play on, unpacked the tar
file, tried to run it and it just errors at line 21, moaning about the
temp directory it tries to set up under /tmp/.