Voice to Text Conversion

February 28, 2010 4:17 PM

I am considering buying "Dragon" voice to text software. Many of the audio files I want it to convert, however, are in Quicktime. Neither the packaging or the website (that I could find) say whether it will convert non-Microsoft compatible audio files. Does anybody know?
posted by CollectiveMind to Technology (4 answers total)

I'm going to assume you mean Dragon NaturallySpeaking 10? It doesn't support Quicktime audio, but does support mp3 files. If you use another program to convert the files to mp3, the files will transcribe fine, but the quality will not be nearly as high as live dictation in any case.
posted by StrikeTheViol at 4:39 PM on February 28, 2010

Audacity will open an MOV and you can then save it as MP3. It's probably possible to script it and do a batch of them.
posted by phearlez at 6:49 PM on February 28, 2010

Audacity will open an MOV and you can then save it as MP3. It's probably possible to script it and do a batch of them.

iTunes will do this as well.
Just add the MOV files to iTunes, select them all, then
[Menu bar]>Advanced>Create MP3 Version
posted by blueberry at 12:13 AM on March 1, 2010

Are the files in your voice? Accuracy without training will not be as good.

Also, at least in older versions, DNS would not let you create a profile for transcribing from files w/o doing a training.
posted by reddot at 10:35 AM on March 1, 2010