Voice to text

[Moniker]

Hi there oh wise ones ..

I am a mature age student drowning under the weight of lectures and the transcription of same. Is there any software (pref. freeware if possible) that you can recommend able to transcribe recorded WMA files?

[Cypherus]

Have seen and done this sort of thing with DRAGON software, latest one around £59, requires only that you remain silent and repeatedly play excerts from the recording during the learning process through a speaker into the microphone, once Dragon has a handle on the voice of the lecturer it is happy to convert same as long as you keep background noise to minimum and watch it's progress being prepared for the occasional errors to creep in, it does get better as it goes along though, burning the lecture to CD helps in handling the process as repeats of various phrases are easier too locate.

One other I have tried is 'Voice insert ActiveX SDK 3.1' a very good and intuative tool but extremly expensive at $299 that I found was capable of translating speech to text almost on the fly with very few mistakes once the voice was learned and if your going to be doing a lot of this sort of thing worth the outlay.

http://www.nuance.co.uk/naturallyspeaking/

http://shareme.com/details/voice-ins...tivex-sdk.html