Comments on: Easy Audio Transcriptions with QuickTime Player (Mac/Windows, Non-Pro)

By: Daniel

Daniel — Mon, 09 Jul 2007 18:21:46 +0000

I like Cubase SX3, but some might take issure with the price. I lot of the above products are reliable.

By: Daniel

Daniel — Mon, 09 Jul 2007 18:20:14 +0000

A lot of good products mentioned. I like Cubase SX biu price might be an issue with some.

By: David Battino

David Battino — Thu, 14 Jun 2007 23:58:04 +0000

Correct me if I’m wrong, Peter, but doesn’t your approach require you to use a mouse? I wrote some AppleScripts to control the QuickTime Player and mapped them to the function keys on my keyboard so I’d never have to stop typing.

Like a Dictaphone, pressing F10 rewinds the audio slightly and then resumes playing, and pressing F11 stops it. F8 copies the current playback position (in minutes and seconds) to the clipboard so I can paste it into the transcript. Other keys play back the audio faster or slower.

I transcribed (or verified) all 56 hour-long interviews in my book with that system.

By: Jesse

Jesse — Thu, 14 Jun 2007 09:51:46 +0000

Ableton Live works in a pinch and is MIDI controllable (disclaimer: I work there) But iListen is what I really want to get for this most tedious of tasks:http://www.macspeech.com/
Jesse

By: GovernorSilver

GovernorSilver — Wed, 13 Jun 2007 05:05:21 +0000

Yes, Winamp’s capability as a transcripion tool has been known for years, but there hasn’t been an known free equivalent for Mac OSX until Pete’s discovery of the free Quicktime Player’s functionality. Which was his point.

Thanks, Pete!

By: Doktorfuture

Doktorfuture — Wed, 13 Jun 2007 02:49:45 +0000

er. slow downer.

(funny thing is that when I tried to post my correction, the blog software said: “slow down cowboy”).

I’m going to go to bed now.

By: Doktorfuture

Doktorfuture — Wed, 13 Jun 2007 02:48:52 +0000

I want to slow dance with the Slow Dancer.

By: Rick

Rick — Mon, 11 Jun 2007 19:56:36 +0000

Agreed, Amzing Slow Downer is fantastic transcribing software. The author continues to improve it and supports it well.

http://www.ronimusic.com/

$45, I think, and worth it. Mac or PC.

By: Chuck Cranston

Chuck Cranston — Mon, 11 Jun 2007 15:08:25 +0000

I’m surprised that no-one in this thread has so far mentioned “Transcribe!” . IMHO, it’s far better for transcibing than anything else I’ve come across. You can check it out at http://www.seventhstring.com.

By: Keith Handy

Keith Handy — Sat, 09 Jun 2007 14:41:10 +0000

I hear ya on the brushed metal look. I installed Shapeshifter some time back. I think I had to pay $20 to keep using it after the trial period, but I didn’t mind. Lots of themes available, some of which are over the top, but I like one called “Blueprint”.

My mini-rant about Quicktime Pro is that I had to purchase it twice. When I upgraded from 6 to 7, I was no longer able to use my original key!