speech to text to notetaking app

Posted by jimspoon
Sep 17, 2013 at 03:03 PM

WSP wrote:
My recollection (admittedly a bit hazy) is that in OneNote you can type
>notes and simultaneously record; then afterwards you could go to a
>particular place in the notes and hear the relevant part of the
>recording. Or something like that. I never tried out that feature, but
>it struck me as potentially very useful for students and journalists.
> >Bill
>

thanks for that reminder Bill ... http://gigaom.com/2008/09/02/coolest-technol/

This reminds me of the Livescribe Sky Wifi smartpen. It records audio while you write, uploads the handwritten notes and audio to Evernote via wifi, and the audio is synchronized with your notes. http://www.livescribe.com/en-us/smartpen/wifi-smartpen/

Audio Notetaker also streamlines navigation through audio - the audio is visualized as colored bars, and you can annotate it, search through the annotations. http://www.sonocent.com/en/the_software/audio_notetaker#software-what-does-it-do

But with these methods, in the end you’re still going back to audio.

Usually I just want to get my short voice memos into text form, so that I never have to go back to the original audio any more.

I do have a rather complicated method of doing this. I dictate time stamps in my voice memos, copy the voice memos to my PC, merge them into one big mp3 file using mergemp3, then drop the merged file into Dragon Naturally Speaking DragonPad. That way I end up with a stream of text with time stamps throughout. Then I correct the text as necessary in DragonPad, and cut and paste the text into my notetaking program. As there are a number of steps - i haven’t been keeping up with this well lately. BUT - at least with this crazy method - making the initial voice recording is simple and automatic - and I do end up with a stream of text with timestamps. Of course I am always looking for something better!

jim