Comments on: MacSpeech Scribe – Transcription From Digital Audio Files For Mac

By: Dave

Dave — Thu, 02 Sep 2010 23:51:34 +0000

Hey Claire

You can order MacSpeech Scribe from the MacSpeech Australia website – http://www.macspeech.com.au/pages.php?pID=181

There is no free trial that I am aware of.

I hope that helps.

Dave
Dictate Australia

By: Claire

Claire — Thu, 02 Sep 2010 08:16:06 +0000

Hi,
I have been trying to source this software in Australia without success. The apple store does not yet stock it and I’ve had no luck finding the MacSpeech Australia website. Options for free downloads (I assume trial versions of the software) on other sites have also failed. Any other suggestions?

By: Dave

Dave — Wed, 05 May 2010 08:29:29 +0000

Hey Amanda

Background noise does not help, for best results recording audio in a quiet environments would be best. Actually using the standard iPhone headset and mic would help the cause as your voice will be close to the mic on the headset cable, no need to invest in a more expensive headset. Also, the inbuilt mic in the iPhone (and now the iPad) is very good.

I hope that helps.

Dave
Dictate

By: Amanda

Amanda — Wed, 28 Apr 2010 00:57:19 +0000

This sounds great! Exactly what I need!

Is it worthwhile investing in a higher quality iphone headset beyond the standard apple earphones + mic?

I tend to do a lot of my audio recording in the car and are wondering whether the background noise of the engine/traffic is going to be a big problem and whether a better quality headset would resolve some of the issues?

Cheers!

Amanda

By: Dave

Dave — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 10:08:52 +0000

Hey Susanne

According to the manual you will need aiff (or wav, aif, mp4, m4a, m4v) from your iPhone. Here is a link to the MacSpeech Scribe manual page 37.

Thanks

Dave
Dictate Australia

By: susanne

susanne — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 22:05:15 +0000

Should I import from my Iphone using AAC or AIFF, since the marketing material doesn’t mention AAC

By: susanne

susanne — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 21:17:23 +0000

Has anyone tried macscribe with the iphone? Is it really 99% accurate?
thanks
Susanne

By: Tony D

Tony D — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 16:37:11 +0000

Would be interested to read users experience of Scribe. In particular how do you add and train new words. I wss going to buy but have been put off by trouble people are reporting at the MacSpeech forum related to downloads and poor customer support. Unfortunately people are more likely to write if they are dissatisfied so not sure if this is just an unrepresentative minority.

By: Dave

Dave — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 09:28:57 +0000

Awesome comments Lewis and much appreciated. We hear alot about MacWorld and the products, great to hear from someone who actually went as a consumer. I have been looking out for a good quality pair of blutetooth stereo headphones, have you come across any that you could give the thumbs up to?

The DM-420/DM-520 are not available in Australia, we tend to lag behind the US and Europe with recorders.

Thanks

Dave
Dictate

By: Lewis

Lewis — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 08:49:51 +0000

It was a smaller gathering for sure but I didn’t really miss Apple’s presence TBH. They had a Sennheiser booth where all their products they brought to the show were 50% off and tax free, so the consumer whore that I am couldn’t pass up the deal and got myself into a pair of HD 228 for $50 out the door. Bulkier for sure than the B&O A8 buds I’ve been using but the bass response and upgraded performance offsets the additional size handicap.

I also picked up a copy of Scribe (naturally) but being a long holiday weekend in the US, will have to wait until I get back into work on Tuesday before loading it up since my iMac at home’s only running 10.5.8. Great bunch of peeps at MacSpeech BTW. Not sure how it’s going to roll for customers outside the US but they promise free tech support for Scribe (and for their other products I’m assuming?) for as long as you own the product. Kudos to the company for this impressive gesture.

One last thing – I can recommend the Olympus DM-520. MacSpeech has blessed the DM-420 but I think the 520′s a better overall deal. It’s as close to a perfect voice recorder used for transcription that I’ve used, in addition to being capable of ingesting Audible .aa files and moonlighting as a iPod. My guess is that since it also records linear PCM (at 16bit 48kHz) you might find some musicians using it too. The included case even comes with a 1/4-20 tripod lug and a flip-up metal stand for interviews and multimedia work. And the Micro SDHC slot can allow you add on memory on top of the 4 gigs soldered inside so theoretically you can record 5000 hours (1k on board, 4k on chip) before needing to take your files off. Best of all it takes AAA batteries, so no worries about getting stuck with some custom battery that could be hard to track down years down the road. If you guys down in Oz have a chance to look this over, I think the DM-520 might impress you.

Almost forgot, great website you guys got going here – nicely done.