[nabs-l] A Question About Transcribing Recorded Audio

[Steve Jacobson]

CoolEdit was purchased a long time ago by Adobe and became Adobe Audition.  Audition 1 and 1.5 looked 
pretty much the same but version 2 changed in such a way as to not be very accessible with screen 
readers.  Version 3 is better, but it generally requires some extra support by screen readers, and it is 
fairly expensive.  

Unless there is something happening with CoolEdit of which I am not aware, and that is certainly 
possible, any downloads you find would be very old and may not work with current hardware or operating 
systems, or worse yet, they may be bogus.  Gold Wave is probably the best bet, although I agree that the 
original person was probably looking to transcribe rather than edit Audio.  

Some of the Audio editors let you "Time Stretch", though, which slows up a recording without lowering 
the pitch.  Some find that it is possible to slow down a recording to a point where one can listen and 
transcribe without the need to start and stop the recording as much, making transcribing easier.

Best regards,

Steve Jacobson

On Thu, 17 Nov 2011 22:16:33 -0500, Chris Nusbaum wrote:

>Hi Amy,

>Is Cool Edit free? If so, I'd be interested in downloading it! By 
>the way, I think Elizabeth was trying to transcribe an audio 
>recording into text (like a transcript,) not edit the audio 
>recording and keep it audio.  That's at least how I took her 
>email.  But only she knows for sure what she intended to do with 
>that "confidential" recording.

>Chris

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> ----- Original Message -----
>From: "Amy Sabo" <amylsabo at comcast.net
>To: "'National Association of Blind Students mailing list'" 
><nabs-l at nfbnet.org
>Date sent: Fri, 11 Nov 2011 21:49:19 -0700
>Subject: Re: [nabs-l] A Question About Transcribing Recorded 
>Audio

>Hello Elizabeth,

>First of all what format is this audio recording done in? is it
>done in mp3 format or in wave format? After that there is a
>program for formatting audio recordings called gold wave or you
>can also use a program called cool edit.  I have never used gold
>wave but, I have used cool edit for editing my audio recordings.
>To obtain both of these programs to download and use for both
>gold wave I believe...

>You can go to www.goldwwave.com to download the software and use
>it.  This is accessible with jfw.  As for cool edit I don't have
>the web site for that but, if you google cool edit you can find
>it!

>Anyway, I hope these and other information that I have given you
>is helpful.  Take care and good luck in your audio production
>work.




>Hugs,
>amy

>-----Original Message-----
>From: nabs-l-bounces at nfbnet.org
>[mailto:nabs-l-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Elizabeth
>Sent: Thursday, November 10, 2011 3:58 PM
>To: National Association of Blind Students mailing list
>Subject: [nabs-l] A Question About Transcribing Recorded Audio

>Hello All,

>I have a rather confidential recording that is approximately
>three hours in
>length that I would like to have transcribed.  Does anyone have
>any
>recommendations about how I might be able to go about getting
>this recording
>transcribed? This recording is not a class lecture.  I would
>welcome any
>ideas regardless if it involves a human transcriber or
>transcribing
>technology.  If you have any ideas, please contact me off list.

>Thanks,
>Elizabeth



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