Creative uses for Garage Band [message #80883] |
Thu, 01 March 2007 12:33  |
DC
Messages: 722 Registered: July 2005
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Hey, I have this older Olympus digital voice recorder that
cannot download the audio as a file, sooo, using it for
interview transcriptions is a royal pain.
Then I had a flash of insight! (I get those every 14 months)
Use Garage Band to transcribe! Now I don't know about you,
but I cannot type fast enough to keep up with a conversation,
and this article I am working on is a long interview. A little
voice recorder will sooner or later lose your place and then you
are in hell finding it again, so I dumped the whole thing into
Garage Band (used 4 tracks becuse GB, like a certain other
app we know, does not like 1.5 hour tracks!) and simply used
GB to play back the interview. Worked pretty dang well for
a free app.
Now, if I could just find a transcription app... One that you
can import an audio file into and it will spit out text...
Is there such a thing?
DC
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Re: Creative uses for Garage Band [message #80887 is a reply to message #80883] |
Thu, 01 March 2007 13:01   |
excelav
 Messages: 2130 Registered: July 2005 Location: Metro Detroit
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Yes there is, but I can't remember the name of it. I think it's a shareware
app. Do a search for mac audio apps and start reading you'll find it.
"DC" <dc@spammersinthegarage.org> wrote:
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>Hey, I have this older Olympus digital voice recorder that
>cannot download the audio as a file, sooo, using it for
>interview transcriptions is a royal pain.
>
>Then I had a flash of insight! (I get those every 14 months)
>
>Use Garage Band to transcribe! Now I don't know about you,
>but I cannot type fast enough to keep up with a conversation,
>and this article I am working on is a long interview. A little
>voice recorder will sooner or later lose your place and then you
>are in hell finding it again, so I dumped the whole thing into
>Garage Band (used 4 tracks becuse GB, like a certain other
>app we know, does not like 1.5 hour tracks!) and simply used
>GB to play back the interview. Worked pretty dang well for
>a free app.
>
>Now, if I could just find a transcription app... One that you
>can import an audio file into and it will spit out text...
>
>Is there such a thing?
>
>DC
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