Here's the set-up: We have hundreds of oral histories on cassette tape. I've
successfully transferred some of these to CD using Audacity (freeware). We
have several people transcribing these histories so we have written copies. Is
there some speech recognition software we could use to for
The latest version of Dragon NaturallySpeaking claims to not require learning
the voice before transcribing voice to text. It should therefore be perfect
for your use. I've used several versions of the software, and I find it
excellent (though you always must check for accuracy). It will
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The latest version of Dragon
I'd have to see it to believe it. Even if it got the sounds right 100%
of the time (highly unlikely), there's simply no way it could deduce
homonyms correctly, which would be needed for proper punctuation at
least.
I don't see any way of doing this project with any degree of accuracy
short of
I beg to differ. This software is able to distinguish among homonyms with a
high degree of accuracy, and as stated earlier, it learns through experience.
Worst case, someone might use it to repeat interviews into the computer - which
would still save a boatload of time and effort.
I have used
