[nabs-l] A Question About Transcribing Recorded Audio

Wed Nov 23 21:21:47 UTC 2011

Hi Amy,

Yes, that's why I plan to get Gold Wave.  By the way, what 
recordings do you do? Do you record segments for David's station 
or other ones?

Chris

"The real problem of blindness is not the loss of eyesight.  The 
real problem is the misunderstanding and lack of education that 
exists.  If a blind person has the proper training and 
opportunity, blindness can be reduced to a mere physical 
nuisance."
-- Kenneth Jernigan (President, National Federation of the Blind, 
1968-1986

P.S.  The I C.A.N.  Foundation helps blind and visually impaired 
youth in Maryland say "I can," by empowering them through 
providing assistive technology and scholarships to camps and 
conventions which help them be equal with their sighted peers.  
For more information about the Foundation and to support our 
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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, 18 Nov 2011 20:25:50 -0700
Subject: Re: [nabs-l] A Question About Transcribing Recorded 
Audio

Hello steve,

I didn't know that cool edit was purchases by adobe at all.  I
haven't used cool edit since 2001 and, I didn't know of the other
updates to that software at all or the expense of it or that it
isn't accessible with screen reasders at all.  Like I said in my
previous message to chris it has been a long time since I have
used the software that my prf gave to us and, it's on a ultiy
disk which I haven't used in a long time.

But, as for doing audio editing for people or for my personal use
I plan to use gold wave since many of my blind friends in this
field use it themselves.

Thanks for the information and, I will talk to you soon!

Hugs,
amy

-----Original Message-----
From: nabs-l-bounces at nfbnet.org
[mailto:nabs-l-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Steve Jacobson
Sent: Friday, November 18, 2011 10:03 AM
To: National Association of Blind Students mailing list
Subject: Re: [nabs-l] A Question About Transcribing Recorded
Audio

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

"The real problem of blindness is not the loss of eyesight.  The

real problem is the misunderstanding and lack of education that
exists.  If a blind person has the proper training and
opportunity, blindness can be reduced to a mere physical
nuisance."
-- Kenneth Jernigan (President, National Federation of the
Blind,
1968-1986

P.S.  The I C.A.N.  Foundation helps blind and visually impaired

youth in Maryland say "I can," by empowering them through
providing assistive technology and scholarships to camps and
conventions which help them be equal with their sighted peers.
For more information about the Foundation and to support our
work, visit us online at www.icanfoundation.info!

Sent from my BrailleNote Apex

 ----- 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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