Transcription software?

[Ric Moore]

On 01/07/2013 01:40 AM, JD wrote:
>
> On 01/06/2013 10:32 PM, Ric Moore wrote:
>> On 01/06/2013 10:19 AM, JD wrote:
>>>
>>> On 01/05/2013 11:18 PM, Ric Moore wrote:
>>>> On 01/03/2013 11:22 AM, JD wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> On 01/02/2013 09:34 PM, Ric Moore wrote:
>>>>>> On 01/02/2013 05:13 PM, JD wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> 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
>>>>>>>
>>>>>> Try running it with padsp scribe
>>>>>> See if that makes is go, Ric
>>>>> Hi Ric,
>>>>> Not sure I know what yo mean by padsp scribe.
>>>>> Is that another app to install??
>>>>
>>>> If you have pulse audio installed, you should already have that.
>>>> (pulseaudio-utils is the package name) typing padsp alerts pulse that
>>>> the program noted after will try to use the old /dev/audio or /dev/dsp
>>>> device and to send the audio instead to pulse.
>>>>
>>>> So, if your program ran, but couldn't output sound (due to being old
>>>> and cranky) that should straighten it out. To run kino successfully I
>>>> open a terminal and type padsp kino. That fixes it's sound problem, as
>>>> it looks for /dev/dsp.
>>>>
>>>> You will also want to install pavucontrol, so that you can select your
>>>> choice of sound source and sound output. You could have an audio tape
>>>> deck connected to input though the stereo-in jack and usb headphones
>>>> for your private listening pleasure. Enjoy. It's way kewl. :) Ric
>>>>
>>> Thanks Ric.
>>> 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.
If you know the name of the file, locate will find it in a jiffy. You 
might have to run sudo updatedb so that locate has the latest files 
names included. You might have to sudo apt-get install mlocate as it's 
not installed by default. But, it sure is an easy way to locate 
something via command line ...just type locate followed by the filename. Ric


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