Convert recorded audio to text

http://www.leveluplunch.com/blog/2013/12/30/convert-recorded-audio-text-using-osx-dictation-audacity-soundflower/

Combine Enhanced Dictation feature in MacOS X 10.9 (Mavericks), with Audacity and Soundflower to turn recorded audio into a text. This enables authors to produce transcripts, subtitles or close caption for podcasters, screen casters and online video producers.

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Closed Caption:

hey everyone this is justin from level
up lunch
we're just getting ready to make a blog
post on how to convert recorded audio to
text this screencast is not to focus on
downloading installing each one of the
the different components are the pieces
that you need to do this
it's really going to focus on the
settings and then kind of the putting it
all together and making it work
so let's see how we can do that first
we're going to go up to apple system
preferences and open up a dictation and
speech and there's three different
pieces we need to make sure that we've
selected first we need to turn dictation
on
next we need to look at and and have
selected the used to enhance dictation
and then the third we need to select
sound flower as an input device
ok next we're going to close this down
and then open up the audacity and
audacity has one setting that we need to
change and that's the output device
so if we select sound flower the to
channel it will actually pipe the sound
from the recording to dictation and then
it will go through the process of doing
that we've already have a prior
screencast that we're going to import
and just show how that works so i will
import that into audacity
so we'll import that into audacity
it'll take just a second and then we'll
jump over to our text edit and then turn
on dictation wallet place
this is where it gets a little trickier
you got to move a little bit faster as
once you play the recording you need it
turn on dictation as soon as possible to
pick up all of the other audio that's
getting played
so we're going to make this jump here
will press play
jump over to TextEdit hit our function
key twice and then it will begin to
actually transcribe that that's one of
the quirky things as you've got to make
that transition very quickly
and you can see it's going over the
audio and producing the text from that
audio and as you can read through it and
see that it's not always perfect
it'll get pretty good but then you'll
have to go up in and and make edits to
paragraphs and commas and punctuation
and all that good stuff
the one thing to note 2 is once you move
off of the text editor your word editing
program it will automatically stop
dictation
so it's continuing to working here
picking up the audio from audacity but
once i go over and say i click on
another window
it's already completed so it'll it'll
stop that dictation
let's go ahead and take a look at that
so it it stopped it once i click on
another window
so just be aware of that as your you're
doing your conversion or you have other
things that you're working on during
that conversion process
one thing I'll do is for this screencast
i will convert a raw format so you can
listen to the screen cast as well as see
what it
dictation produced through this process
thanks for joining