Mac transcribing

[Kristine Fitch]

SoundEdit is another Mac program, but I don't have a Web address and those
who use it all say "but there are better ones."

Kristine

At 09:00 PM 5/30/01 -0500, Alexandre Enkerli wrote:
>I've been looking for similar tools on the Mac.
>
>Praat
>http://www.praat.org
>This is a very powerful sound analysis program that can greatly help in
>any transcription task. Its interface is somewhat peculiar for those who
>may be used to other analysis programs but it literaly works wonders.
>Perhaps the most amazing thing with Praat is that you can get it for free
>by sending a message to the author, Paul Boersma. There's an
>eGroups mailing-list for Praat users and the program is regularly updated
>in response to questions posted on the list.
>
>Listen&Type
>http://www.pluto.dti.ne.jp/~natta/english.html
>This shareware integrates a simplistic Quicktime-based sound player in a
>simple text editor. Its most convenient feature is that pressing the tab
>key plays back a set portion of the file.
>
>Transcribe!
>http://www.seventhstring.demon.co.uk/xscribe/
>Another shareware This one is meant for musical transcription (with an
>on-screen keyboard and spectrum analyzer) but could be used to transcribe
>text.
>
>There are several other programs that could be used but most of them are
>relatively expensive.
>As for Unix and Windows programs they can still be used on the Mac with an
>emulator (e.g. Virtual PC) or LinuxPPC.
>
>Good luck!
>
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