[X4U] OS X Speech capabilities question

[A. Scott McCulloch]

The built-in speech capabilities of OS X will not do transcription,  
but iListen will - www.macspeech.com

However, it requires "training" the system to recognize your voice -  
so I'm not sure how good it would be for interviews where there are  
voices that have not been used for training. Not to mention the fact  
that typically, recorded interviews by grad students are not done  
with high quality recording equipment, so the voices aren't always  
very clear (I know, I'm finishing up my own dissertation).

What I ended up doing was recording all of my interviews on an  
Olympus digital recorder and then emailing the DSS audio files to a  
transcriptionist who then emailed back the interviews in Word format  
a few days later.

Scott

On Oct 7, 2005, at 11:50 AM, Matt Gregory wrote:

> I don't use the Speech capabilities of my Mac much and haven't  
> found much online about it so I thought I'd ask the quick question  
> here.  My girlfriend is in grad school for psychology and does a  
> lot of interviewing and transcription of those interviews which is  
> very time consuming.  I was wondering if the built-in capabilities  
> of OS X could be used to get a good baseline document which she  
> could then verify/modify.  I know it can be used to give commands  
> to the Mac, but didn't know if it be turned on and just read from  
> audio-in and write to a document until turned off.  Any suggestions?
>
> Thanks,
>
> matt.
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