I'm curious if anybody has Dragon Naturally Speaking or some other like software that will transcribe an MP3 into typed text.
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I should have given some qualifications. Dragon works best with raw sound files, like wav, but I did fiddle around with mp3s a year ago and got it to sort of work.
It seems cool at first, but when you go back to correct things you realize how much time you have to spend fixing the wrong words (dragon rarely mispells, rather, it puts in a perfectly fine word that you didn't use--makes proofreading difficult because the sentence looks OK on skimming), you end up ditching the effort.
You can use mp3s from a very high quality recorder, but wav is better still. If you want to seriously dictate, the first step is to check Dragon's website for "certified" recorders. Even then, I'd check on the knowbrainer.com forum too, because those guys spend a lot of time testing equipment.
I'm sort of negative about getting into using Dragon unless you want to really dive in. I spent probably 200 hours tweaking my wife's system and my system over the past year, and it still does strange things. In her case, it is an essential thing, in my case, it is a pretty useful thing that, sometime down the road, will pay me back.
I loved it till I went back to check it for accuracy. It was quicker for me to just listen to the lecture/sermon via headphones and then dictate it into Dragon.