Viv mentioned last week software that converts audio to text. I asked if she could provide the class with that information and here it is. Thanks, Viv.
"In regards to the digital recording to text - I am just going to paste in my notes from a recent call to Nuance/MacSpeech. These are notes I took in Evernote. If you do not know about Evernote, I encourage you to check it out. It is a phenomenal program for "remembering everything." http://www.evernote.com/ You can use it for free but the bells and whistles you get with the pro version are well worth the $45/year subscription. Very good program for collecting research too!
"Nuance - for what I want to do I would need to get both Dragon Dictate & MacScribe
MacScribe http://www.macspeech.com/pages.php?pID=181
"As long as you get 2 minutes contiguous speech you can train MacScribe to the interviewee's voice
"Set up a Profile for each interviewee. Then interviewee's voice will be recorded most accurately and interviewer's voice will have more errors.
"Works best with a mic; like a lapel mic
3 digital recorders recommended:
"Olympic digital recorders http://www.macspeech.com/pages.php?pID=67
Recommended headsets there, too.
"Dragon Dictate http://www.macspeech.com/pages.php?pID=143
2.0 just released on 9/20; just started shipping this week.
Stock on shelves is old version.
If you buy the old version within 30 days of 9/20 you can upgrade for free.
"Nuance recently bought the MacSpeech company
They offered a bundled package for a while - but sounds like they were doing that to get rid of MacSpeech product before the Dragon Dictate release.
"There is an education discount. UW Bookstore Tech sells the products.
800.654.1187 Nuance Customer Service (Guess I called MacSpeech customer service. Spoke with Jason.)"
Viv
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