Transcription software?

[JD]

On 01/07/2013 12:43 PM, Doug wrote:
> On 01/07/2013 09:56 AM, JD wrote:
>>
>> On 01/07/2013 12:41 AM, rikona wrote:
>>> Hello JD,
>>>
>>> Sunday, January 6, 2013, 10:40:59 PM, JD wrote:
>>>
>>>>>> Installing now.
>>>>> Let me/us know how it pans out! Enjoy! Ric
>>>> OK, this time it worked without belching any errors.
>>>> However, I have no idea where it is storing the resulting text file.
>>>> So, that is the next thing for me to look at and see how the
>>>> transcription went.
>>> Can that setup read an input audio dictation file and output a text
>>> file with the corresponding text? I'd sure like something that could
>>> do that well.
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>>
>> Well, I would like a SW that canlisten to an mp3 or wav or
>> whatever format audio file, and produce a corresponding text file.
>> I thought express scribe could do it.
>> Perhaps it cannot.
>>
> When I first saw this thread, I looked up the problem on Google, and
> one of the transcription programs used an auxiliary program,
> "Dragon Naturally Speaking."  I suspect you're going to have to
> use Windows to solve your problem. Someone here has probably
> used DNS, and can tell you whether it can recognize speech without
> being trained by a particular speaker.  If it can't, there may not be
> a practical solution.
>
> --doug
>
A friend familiar with Text To Speech said that at some point
in his search, he had come across a speaker independent TTS
software (very expensive), but soon forgot about it.
Guess that it is not likely that such a beast exists as a freebie or
as open-source.