One recent post on the topic asked about making dubs for the transcriptionist. Once it’s set up properly, it actually works fairly well – especially with the improvements in speech-to-text software.īut there are lots of other solutions and hopefully one of them will work for your particular set of circumstances.
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So my idea was to train the software to your voice – or an assistant’s – and then listen to the interviews with headsets on and speak the words you hear shortly after you hear them, much like an on-camera talent using an ear prompter. Obviously if you’re trying to transcribe interviews for a documentary, you can’t train the software to each speaker’s voice. Many of the voice-to-text software programs like Dragon Naturally Speaking do a much better job of transcribing text if it is first “trained” to understand a particular speaker’s voice patterns.
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I could claim to be somewhat of a celebrity in transcription circles… Long ago, I posted an off-the-cuff response to a similar thread about transcription and it was pointed out to me that since then, my name has been co-opted as a verb! Google “Hullfishing transcription.” It shows up on producer’s websites and blogs, editors, audio editors, and even a stenography blog! Hopefully, I get known for something a little better than this before someone has to write my obituary.
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If you’ve got a transcription to search, doing these kinds of tasks is much, much easier. Splice them together and you’ve got an elegant ending to an otherwise choppy sounding sentence. Sometimes if I’m trying to end a speaker’s thought in mid-sentence, I do a search for the same ending word with a period after it. It’s also handy to have as an editor when you’re trying to “Frankenstein” a soundbite together and you’re looking for the sentence-ending word with an “S” at the end or something like that.
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With the recent FCC rules, all TV programs need closed-captioning, and unless you’re doing scripted drama, you’ll need transcriptions for the closed-captioner. If you don’t think you need transcriptions, think again. The topic of transcription came up on several forums recently, so I thought I’d share the peanut gallery’s wisdom on the subject.