ExpressScribe Free for Mac is an audio player for pro users and students alike. It has been designed to aid its users in manually transcribing audio recordings. The ‘Free’ in the title refers to the fact that the software is free. Yes, unfortunately you still have to do all the actual typing yourself. If that’s what you are after, then keep reading. If not, thanks for your time, what follows is probably not for you.
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Also speech to text software comes up in search results, like Dragon Naturally Speaking, but that isn’t a transcription software. That’s a dictation software. We covered the differences between dictation and transcription software in this article. Whether transcribing a legal deposition or conducting an interview for a newspaper, finding the best way to convert spoken-word audio into a text document is an age-old problem. This feature is not available right now. Please try again later.
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What Express Scribe is good for, is professional typists or anyone else who wants to type audio playbacks. Installation is easy, the interface is simple to use and easy to master.
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Express Scribe has also been designed from the ground up to work with USB foot pedals, so if you own one, compatibility should be assured. If you don’t have a foot pedal to hand, there are shortcut ‘hot’ keys you can use instead, and using these also works well.
Key Fatures:
- Supports audio and video playback.
- Supports professional USB foot pedals to control playback. vWorks with Microsoft Word and all major word-processors.
- Works with speech recognition software such as Dragon Naturally Speaking to automatically convert speech to text.
- Works with FastFox text expander for entering medical/legal phrases and common phrases with keyboard shortcuts.
While Express Scribe Transcription Free is primarily aimed at professional typists, we think that anyone else who wants to do some transcribing and typing from notes should have no problems finding this software accessible.
The transcribing UI offers a lot more for typists than you might think would come with a ‘free’ version of professional software. Highlights include variable speed playback, multi-channel control, video playing, and file management; all things you would normally expect to receive from ‘premium’ specialized transcription software.
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The free version also supports all the common audio formats you would expect such as .MP3, .WMA, .DCT, and even encrypted dictation files.
OS X’s built-in dictation feature works pretty well, but with a simple setting change, you can enable on-the-fly dictation, even when offline. In this week’s video, we show you how.
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Transcript
An underused feature of OS X is dictation. Instead of typing all your text, you can speak to your Mac and have it transcribe your words into the current document.
To use dictation, you just press the keyboard shortcut you’ve assigned, or choose Start Dictation from the Edit menu, and start talking. Press the shortcut again when you’re finished, and OS X transmits a recording of your voice to Apple’s servers for processing. A few seconds later, the text appears in your document.
As you can see here, dictation works pretty well, but you can make it a lot better by enabling Enhanced Dictation.
With Enhanced Dictation enabled, you don’t have to wait for your voice to be sent over the Internet, because transcription processing is handled locally. And instead of having to finish each thought and wait for the text to appear before starting the next bit, Enhanced Dictation provides live transcription of your voice.
You enable Enhanced Dictation with a simple change in the System Preferences utility. Open the Dictation & Speech pane, and on the Dictation screen, enable Use Enhanced Dictation. Your Mac will proceed to download roughly 800MB of necessary data. Once that’s finished, Enhanced Dictation will be available at any time, even when you’re offline.