How to Transcribe Audio Speech and Video to Text File
To transcribe audio or video file to a text file or text transcription is probably a journalists and reporter usually do regularly. Anyone is you, here it is the trick to transcribe speech in audio and video files into text formats without having to have fast ten fingers typing ability, but average is ok. Transcribing speech in audio and video files will be easy with the help of Express Scribe software – works on Windows, Linux, and Mac OSX. So let start with transcription process.
12 Steps to Transcribe Audio/Video to Text
1- Download and install Express Scribe, run it.
2- In the main Windows, click on [Load] button. Locate the audio files you want to transcribe (,mp3 song or speech)
3- Adjust the speed slider. You can adjust the playback to be slow enough for your ten fingers to catch up. Express Scribe will keep the pitch stable and maintain the words as clear as they are in the original speed.
4- Now press the [Play] button, a “Multi Channel Display” window will appear. This window allows you to adjust the volume of the left and right audio channels, or turn them on/off.
5- Open [Preferences] menu.
6- Then go to the [Hot-keys] tab and check the [Enable system-wide hot-keys] box. After that click the [Add] button.
7- Choose one of the functions from the drop-down list, and click [Change] to assign shortcut to it. Press the key combination that you chose, and click [OK] button.
8- Now you should assign hotkeys only to the most important playback functions.
Play : [Ctrl + Alt + Right Arrow]
Stop : [Ctrl + Alt + Period]
Rewind : [Ctrl + Alt + Left Arrow]
Go to start : [Ctrl + Alt + 0?
Decrease playback speed (-5%) : [Ctrl + Alt + Down Arrow]
Increase playback speed (+5%) : [Ctrl + Alt + Up Arrow]
9- Now we need to set default word processor. To do that just change the default template file from the [Preferences] >> [Other].
10- Create a blank document with the extension that you choose, and add the file to the Express Scribe template list (click the [Add] button).
11- Then select the file, click the [Set to default] button followed by the [OK] button.
12- Now start trsncribing by playing the audio file.
Why we need to set Hot-keys? The purpose of using this, is we don’t have to go back and forth between the player and the word processor. Express Scribe allows you to set up hotkeys to control its functions from within other applications.
Why we need to set default Word processor? To allow you to write the transcription straight from the Express Scribe window. The default application is whatever application that you set to open a “.doc” file (Mostly this will be Microsoft Word).[via MUO]
Download Express Scribe
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