Rev voice recorder but The transcribing service is not free. Regards, Feliciano
Sent from the Super-iPhone > On Feb 9, 2014, at 11:26 AM, "Alan Lemly" <wale...@gmail.com> wrote: > > I hate to post a "me too" message but I was thinking this morning if an app > existed that would let you convert a spoken audio file into text. I know > that programs such as Dragon Naturally speaking do something similar with > the spoken word as does Dictate as Sandy discusses in her message below. > With the technology existing to do the conversion, it would seem possible > that for example, an mp3 file made of a lecture or other spoken content > could be processed and converted to text. > > Does anyone know of an app or a computer program that does such a thing? > Alternatively, I would be interested in an app that would let you record and > would also allow you to convert what was recorded to text maybe later after > some offline processing. > > Any suggestions would be appreciated. > > Alan Lemly > > -----Original Message----- > From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On Behalf > Of Sandratomkins > Sent: Sunday, February 09, 2014 6:32 AM > To: viphone@googlegroups.com > Subject: The potential of the dictation function? > > Hi there! > I was just playing around with my phone and I opened the notes app. Then, in > a new note, I started off the dictation function. I then walked into the > kitchen, where my partner was eating lunch, the radio was playing, and there > was some ambient noise. I told him I wanted to carry out a small experiment > with dictation and asked him to talk to me. We then had a short > conversation. I stopped the dictation function and waited to see how much of > the conversation my phone had picked up. It actually did very well, > probably, digitising about 30/40% of our conversation. Something I noticed > was that when my partner spoke the dictation made a new paragraph For him. > > So, what do I conclude? I am thinking that the phone has the potential, > under the right circumstances, to, say, digitise a whole lecture. I think, > it would need to actually record the lecture first and then take its time > over the digitising from spoken to text. But I am sure it could actually do > it as things stand right now. That is, I think it can do it but it with me > to have its own space for the processing. > > Has anyone else played with this function? Perhaps, there is already an app > to do it? I would be very interested to hear people's comments on this as, I > think, it may have greater potential, I E, in transcribing radio programs > for people who at the moment can't access them due to hearing loss. Or > for students, journalists, and who knows what else? > > My thanks for any responses, > Sandy > > Sent from my iPhone > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the "VIPhone" Google > Group. > > Post a new message to VIPhone by emailing viphone@googlegroups.com. > > Search and view the VIPhone archives by visiting > http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. > > Reach the VIPhone owner and moderators by emailing > viphone+ow...@googlegroups.com. > > Unsubscribe and leave VIPhone by emailing > viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > > More VIPhone group options can be found by visiting > http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en. > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "VIPhone" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the "VIPhone" Google > Group. > > Post a new message to VIPhone by emailing viphone@googlegroups.com. > > Search and view the VIPhone archives by visiting > http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. > > Reach the VIPhone owner and moderators by emailing > viphone+ow...@googlegroups.com. > > Unsubscribe and leave VIPhone by emailing > viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > > More VIPhone group options can be found by visiting > http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en. > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "VIPhone" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the "VIPhone" Google Group. 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