Transcription software?

[JD]

On 01/02/2013 04:59 PM, Doug wrote:
> On 01/02/2013 04:40 PM, JD wrote:
>>
>> On 01/02/2013 12:47 PM, David Fletcher wrote:
>>> A friend has just been made redundant from her work and as a fall-back
>>> position is thinking about using her typing skills to transcribe audio
>>> recordings into text.
>>>
>>> I've never been involved with this before but it seems to me what is
>>> needed is something that plays audio with foot pedal control while
>>> running a text editor at the same time.
>>>
>>> Doing some digging, there's something called Express Scribe For Linux
>>> http://www.winsite.com/Audio/Media-Players/Express-Scribe-For-Linux/
>>> but I prefer to go to the Ubuntu repository.
>>>
>>> Is there anything in the repository that does the job or anything else
>>> that can be recommended?
>>>
>>> Dave
>>>
>>>
>>>
>> The best transcription SW I have come across is
>> www.nch.com.au/scribe/index.html
>> The SW is called Express Scribe
>> However, it is not free :(
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> JD
>>
> It looks good, but it only runs on windows or Mac O-X. It support
> "most major word processors" which surely includes MS Word and
> WordPerfect, but it doesn't say what else.
> And it will apparently work with speech recognition software.
>
> Finally, there is a free version, but I did not look into its 
> limitations.
>
> --doug
>
As Dave had pointed out there is a Linux version,
which I indicated that it is a shell installation file,
so you will have to 'sh' or 'bash' it.
I ran it, and it produced some errors.
However, it WILL play the audio file you select - albeit
it did not yield any text file.