{"id":52738,"date":"2022-02-22T03:49:12","date_gmt":"2022-02-22T03:49:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jurn.org\/tentaclii\/?p=52738"},"modified":"2022-02-22T03:49:12","modified_gmt":"2022-02-22T03:49:12","slug":"two-useful-audio-tools","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/2022\/02\/22\/two-useful-audio-tools\/","title":{"rendered":"Two useful audio tools"},"content":{"rendered":"

This may not be news to some savvy Tentaclii<\/em> readers, but I’ve discovered the wonderful automatic speech-transcription feature of Nuance Dragon Professional 15<\/strong>. This used to be known as the Dragon Dictate software. Works on a desktop PC back to Windows 7, offline and with no Cloud required. It must be the Professional edition, not lesser editions, as only Professional uses a trained AI and auto-transcribes. It does this surprisingly well from a clear .MP3 — if the speaker has good diction and good English on a good microphone. <\/p>\n

It then still needs work to polish up the interview transcript, which for my use-case was not too much hassle as I only needed to use it for one old audio interview (Digital Art Live<\/em> does interview by email now, sending a list of questions). But after several hours of research it looks to me like this software is the best offline ‘one-time payment’ solution. There are of course various online \/ subscription sign-up option from other services. The online version of Microsoft Word now also offers free audio transcription, and Microsoft recently purchased the company that makes Dragon for a gazillion dollars. Which may mean Dragon’s offline transcription days are numbered, at a guess.<\/p>\n

Another AI-powered and offline wonder appears to be the well-recommended Izotope RX<\/strong>, a desktop PC suite of audio-repair VST modules for speech audio. But that’s not yet been tested by me.<\/p>\n

I’ve also replaced the old Audacity audio editor with the fine Windows desktop freeware Ocenaudio<\/a><\/strong>. Like Audacity but prettier and a bit simpler. Easy to use, supports VST plugins like Audacity did, and bundles FFmpeg codecs and other codecs (like Audacity didn’t).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This may not be news to some savvy Tentaclii readers, but I’ve discovered the wonderful automatic speech-transcription feature of Nuance …<\/p>\n

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