Need help

[moresound]

A friend of mine is writing a book and has it recorded.
Now he wants to find a free program that will listen to the CD and type in onto his computer -- is there such a program?

 

[Brenton]

You might be able to use the program Dragon. Its a speech to text program. I'm sure you could play back the audio and it will type what it hears on a word document. I've never used it though so I don't know if it will have to be played through a cd player and picked up through a mic or if the program is written to work with line inputs besides its mic input.

 

[moresound]

I was thinking about that program - Was wondering if there are others that may be better etc.

 

[DrumRookie]

MacSpeech Scribe is apparently one of the good ones out there. Not sure if they make it for Windows.
People seem to have issues with it crashing unfortunately, Dragon looks pretty good.

 

[Twinhit]

Do you have to "teach" this thing?
I tried a freeware once and it didn't work out.

Oh see the cat!
Does the mouse see the cat?
Yes! The dirty rat!
- Moe

Now, you see, there was a time when people made money dictating, transcribing, stenography, etc as a secretary or a court reporter.

Interestingly enough learning shorthand might not be such a bad idea.
I wonder if there is a shorthand program where you can write in shorthand, then the program re-writes
it in full.

 

[TimOBrien]

Yes, all programs have to be taught.
Accuracy is, well... lets just say if you're serious about writing a book you need to learn to TYPE or pay someone to transcribe it.

No such thing as a free lunch....

 

[John Willett]

A friend of mine is writing a book and has it recorded.
Now he wants to find a free program that will listen to the CD and type in onto his computer -- is there such a program?

Not free there isn't.

Dragon Naturally Speaking seems to be the best and I know one author (Nikolai Tolstoy) that uses it for writing books.

Yes, it has to learn; but after you have trained it, it gets much easier.