Dictation App Needed for Transcribing Video Interview

My favourite is Inqscribe, they have a free trial version.

Sparced said:

That's not a dictation application though is it? I don't want to have to type.

I found one called Dragon Dictate buy not sure it's what I'm looking for.

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Oh, I see - yes I misunderstood you. No, InqScribe won't do that. I don't have any experiences with those kind of apps, but if you find anything good, please report back.

Sparced said:

That's not a dictation application though is it? I don't want to have to type.

I found one called Dragon Dictate buy not sure it's what I'm looking for.

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You want MacSpeech Scribe, its not cheap though - $150. Note this App is designed to recognise 1 voice at a time, although you can train to recognise 6, so if lots of different people are talking it might not be that accurate. Nuance have the best speech recognition algorithms on the Mac though.

Adobe Soundbooth does voice transcription; I haven't used it since CS4, but I recall it needed really clear audio to get even halfway decent results. Think Brian Williams doing the news.

If it's just an hour though an online service that guarantees accuracy might be more economical. Or Amazon Mechanical Turk; lots of folks there do human transcription.