Convert .mp3 to text???

[beemerboy9]

Hi folks looking for some media conversion advice.
My daughter conducted some interviews on an Olympus voice recorder, creating .wav files as output. Her boyfriend has converted these into .mp3 files for her. She needs to type the interviews as "evidence" for her "A"-level project.
Are there programs that will convert either of these formats into editable text?

Many thanks for reading this,

John

 

[qwertme]

you might want to google for speech recognition software

 

[Loiq]

Adobe CS4 directors suite about 3K has apparently a got audio to text facility there might be some cheaper version on a beta forum not sure we've not had much to do with it.

My copy of CS4 should be here in a couple of weeks will have a look.

 

[turbine_2]

It's possible, although she'd do better starting from .WAV files.

I believe dragon voice will convert from wav to text, but if it doesn't as long as the voice quality is sufficient, stick a speeker and microphone close enough and it should type what it hears.

 

[DCoplin]

Adobe Soundbooth CS4 will do it. Not a cheap way to solve the problem though - it sells for a couple of hundred bucks - sorry.

Haven't found much else that works to do this easily.

 

[Barrmill Biker]

sound apps

I haven't tried these but worth a look

Amis-Daisy reader

Dspeech

PowerReader

these are free aps so may be a bit limited but worth a try we use them with students
with learning difficulties if yo need to split the mp3 files try Audiobook cutter

Hope this helps

 

[Slowdown]

Depending on how long the audio is it may well be much cheaper to just pay an audio typist/transcription service to type it in my hand.

Software wise, something low end, like Dragon Dictate/Via Voice, will need train itself in the recorded voice. They're not *that* good. It's not worth it in my opinion.

Serious professional systems cost mega bucks.

There's loads of audio typist services on the web. You can just e-mail them the MP3 and they'll mail back the text. Get them to sign a simple non-disclosure agreement if it is or will be commercially sensitive.

Here's the top return from my Google - http://www.anaudiotypist.co.uk/page_967757.html

She's 70p/min of audio. Thats £84 for 2 hours worth of boffin speak. Prob +VAT, so ~£100. That's just a bit more than half the price of Dragon Dictate.

Do you have 2 hours worth of text???

 

[Clive]

With Vista (Ultimate - not sure about other versions) you get inbuilt speech recognition - have just done a test where I recorded myself saying

"This is a test to see if I can talk to the computer".

Started Wordpad and played the sound bite back - it thought I said

"This isn't as the singer-12 to computer and then over the college all".

Good enough test for me