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Open Source Transcription Software?

Posted by kdawson on from the what-he-said dept.

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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  1. Dear aunt, by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

    let's set so double the killer delete select all.

    Seriously, transcribe it manually... automatic speech recognition just doesn't work. And can never work, because much of the time the only reason humans can understand each other is by making informed guesses based on context, which a computer program cannot do.