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Open Source Transcription Software?
sshirley writes "I am beginning to do some interviews with family members and will do some audio journals for genealogy purposes. I would really love to be able to run the resulting MP3 or WAV files through some software a get a text file out. I know that software like this exists commercially. But does this exist in the open source world?"
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End of lesson. You may press the button.
open up vi, press i, (or a), and press play on the audio device.
Type out whatever you hear.
Problem solved. :wq
wow. two opposing responses modded to +5. this is tough.
(chews nails)
who is right?
(nervously taps fingers on desk)
And the winner is Slashdot ID 692029!!!!
It was very close, but 692029 had the other guy beat by 556.
Phew. I'm glad we have a pecking order around here to break the draw.
Mummy, why does aunt Bess call grandma a "syphilitic rum-and-cock-addled whore"?
Daddy, why was great grandpa Ben "shot at dawn for cowardice in the face of the enemy"?
Mummy and daddy, how come I was born only four months after you married?
To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it