Speech to text software (audio transcribing) for mac

December 11th, 2012
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audio
mac
osx
speech-to-text
transcription

Question What is the best speech to text software for mac? I have an hours worth of audio that I need to transcribe, and I’d really like to not have to do it manually . I prefer free options and I like open source so if there is a project I’d like to know. All [...]

Command line multitrack audio looper for Linux?

December 9th, 2012
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audio
command-line
linux

Question Given a number of audio files, (say, *.wav), I’d like a command line way to mix these files as tracks with individual volumes, and define global loop points, so the audio mix loops seamlessly. Could anyone suggest any alternatives? Many thanks in advance, Cheers! In fact, a “command line looper” can almost be achieved [...]

Macbook PRO noisy audio output

November 30th, 2012
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audio
osx

Question The audio output of my MacBookPro4 with Snow Leopard is very noisy. Right after I start some sound player software, a loud white noise starts on the standard audio output (the jack for the headphones) and it can be heard during the whole audio playback, and some time after the audio stops (I guess [...]

HD Audio or AC97 connector – Which to use when, and what’s the difference?

November 4th, 2012
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audio
connector

Question I’m currently setting up a older system in a new case (i’ll be upgrading it in stages, and the old parts then go back into the old case ;p), and i’m having a bit of confusion over which cable to use, and what the difference is. The cable looks somewhat like this , with [...]

Mute sound from other users in Windows 7

August 26th, 2012
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audio
sound
windows
windows-7

Question I recently moved from Ubuntu to Windows 7 on my home PC. It has generally been a quite pleasant experience, but of course some things are not perfect. Among them is this issue: When for exampe my son is playing a game in his browser and I use fast user switching to get to [...]

Tool to fix video that’s out of sync with audio?

August 4th, 2012
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audio
video
video-capture

Question I’m looking for (preferably free) software for Windows 7 that will allow me to fix an AVI file that has audio out of sync with the video. I tried with Windows Live Movie Maker and VirtualDub and couldn’t find out how to do it (if at all possible) on both of them. If any [...]

Monitoring audio while recording it (software mode)

July 28th, 2012
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audio
audio-recording
digital-audio
sound
windows-7

Question Audacity has such option “software playthrough” but unfortunately Audacity is not applicable for my case. Other software misses that feature it seems, at least I can’t find anything that turns the monitoring on/off: Audition 3, 5.5 / WaveLab 6, 7 Is there a way to hear what is being recorded? Windows 7. On-board sound [...]

Program for capturing audio as an audio file

July 26th, 2012
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audio
audio-recording
windows

Question I am interesting in generating an audio file (mp3, wma…) instead of having the sound coming out of the speaker. For example, I press record, play one or multiple sound on my computer (movie, website, windows sound…) and after a while I press stop and it gives me an audio file of everything that [...]

Linux command to concatenate audio files and output them to ogg

July 2nd, 2012
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audio
command-line
linux

Question What command-line tools do I need in order to concatenate several audio files and output them as one ogg (and/or mp3)? If you can provide the complete command to concatenate and output to ogg, that would be awesome. Edit: Input files (in my case, currently) are in wma format, but ideally it should be [...]

How do I make my “volume up” more powerful in Win7?

May 28th, 2012
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audio
keyboard-shortcuts
windows

Question My volume up button raises the volume by 1%. Its also not a button, it’s a weird ‘touch’ thing which is really really terrible. If I want to lower the volume, I have to awkwardly rub it for a while. If it were to decrease by 5% or 10% it would be a lot [...]

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