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Aside from speaking to Siri on my phone, I've never had a need to use any auto dictation software or process. I now have two long YouTube videos that I need to transcribe. Does anyone have the best process to get any online audio down into words? I suspect that buying Dragon is one possibility, but I'm wondering if there's a Siri-type thing built into Yosemite now, or a website that will do it for free.
Anyone with experience in this?
Always, many thanks.
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try Dictation in Mavericks, you would need to play the youtube video on an iPhone or iPad and have the Mac listen to it. Depending on how fast the video is spoken, yu may get some results, You would still need to go back and correct it though, but it beats typing.
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I've been attempting that, space-time, even downloading the stand-alone 1.2Gig app and comparing it to the online version. Both work great for actual speaking into the mic in any word processing app. But it doesn't even get 10% accuracy on YouTube video speeches, from my experience, even when the videos are coming from an iPhone or other external speaker source.
This may be the current limitations of the tech.
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Youtube has some option for this. Try googling for youtube and transcription
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youtube will transcribe automatically. Not necessarily very accurately. But even if you take what youtube generates and follow along and edit as you go, that might give you a head start.
