Something like Subtitle workshop but for audio

[Nick Less]

I need an application for manual translating of audio files to text. To be specific - we're recording meetings and then somebody has to type everything to text while listening to recordings. Now, the problem is that the person that's typing is not exactly computer literate so they can't use audio player and word and then switch back and forth. Something like Subtitle Workshop, but for audio files.

[foxyshadis]

Dragon Naturally Speaking is the most popular software for that, and generally considered the most accurate. It can do transcriptions from recorded files just fine (might only be in the pro version, not sure). Otherwise searching the net for "voice recognition" should pull up many hits, possibly even some free ones.

[Nick Less]

Oh no, nothing like that, i don't need voice recognition. The person would listen to the recording and then type it. Since it is done by listening to a part of the conversation, then stopping it, typing it and than again listening, it would be very tedious to use player and text editor and switch between them. So basically i just need a program that hast hose two combined so there's no alttabbing. That's why i mentioned subtitle workshop, only it works with timing and it's not exactly suitable for regular text files.

[setarip_old]

Oh no, nothing like that, i don't need voice recognition. The person would listen to the recording and then type it.Can you please clarify? Since using a voice recognition program would eliminate the need for someone to manually transcribe onto the computer, why wouldn't you benefit from using it?

[dani82]

i think his' request is pretty much along the line of "fansubbing" or karoke

[foxyshadis]

No, dani, it sounds like he needs something else; if he needed that he'd just use the app he was asking about! o.o

Well, if you're cheap and really want to type it up, just use subtitle workshop itself. Create a custom output format that outputs only the text, not the timecodes or frames. Press insert to add a new line whenever you want to. (Although for pure audio medusa or aegisub might be better, I think they're SSA only and can't do custom output.)

Alternately, have both notepad and some media player open, but not maximized, so they're always both on the screen. ;)