Text FROM mp3 (or other audio format)

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Is there a software or utility for the Mac that will take my voice recorder files (mp3 or mp4 or some other sound format---interviews with different people) and transcribe these files INTO text?
 
Hello Hugh,

Unless I have misunderstood their literature, both softwares you have mentioned will allow me to speak into a microphone and get text (after a fairly arduous learning session---allowing the software to recognize MY voice).

Specifically, these softwares do NOT allow me to take an existing mp3 or mp4 (or another file format) and offer the opportunity to transcribe these files into text.

From your knowledge of these softwares, did I misunderstand their shortcomings?

(I very much appreciate your time to read and post!)

Michael
 
Worst case, you'd turn their recognition on and play the files. The microphone would pick up the sound. But I'd ask the software makers whether their software would serve your purpose.
 
Okay, simple answer is that there is very limited software for actually transcribing from speech-to-text (note what philbert had to say in his response in that link). I do know that there is significant work going into development of software to enable s-t-txt for the storage of audio archives from old(er) magnetic tapes for example.

However, using the information in the link I found, developing iListen to recognise multiple voices is nigh-on impossible owing to the huge range of inflexion and modulation in the human voice.

So, it looks at this stage, and without new information from others in the forum, I'd endorse what philbert had to say - manual transcription. You have my sympathies - I spent the best part of a year, in spare time, transcribing the aural memoirs of an elderly community member. I'm glad I did it, despite the trepidation - and it improved my typing skills no end!!!

What??? Did I type 'aural'? Aaaaaagh! Of course, I meant 'oral'.
 
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