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We have used Dragon to do dictation kinds of things. Don't know how it would work in "conference room" situation. Leslie On 10/16/2014 5:55 PM, Jaime Galindo wrote: > Hi Leslie, > > The programs I'm familiar with, the voice recognition built into Windows and > Dragon Naturally Speaking, both rely on training the software to an > individual's voice. They're pretty good after that, but I don't know if > something exists that can do a halfway decent job from a recording of an > unknown voice or more than one voice at a time. Basic words or phrases are > probably one thing, but not spontaneous speech. I am curious, however, if > someone does respond with something they thing would do the trick. > > Jaime > > > Jaime Galindo > Office of Planning and Budgets > Michigan State University > Hannah Administration Building > 426 Auditorium Rd Rm 324 > East Lansing, MI 48824 > > Tel: 517-432-1236 > E-mail: [log in to unmask] > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Leslie K. Houang [mailto:[log in to unmask]] > Sent: Thursday, October 16, 2014 5:03 PM > To: [log in to unmask] > Subject: [MSUNAG] Voice to Text Transcription Software > > Wondering if anybody can help me locate some decent voice to text > transcription software. The basic scenario is that we have groups that do > digital recordings of meetings. These digital recordings need to be > transcribed into minutes of the meeting. The person who has to transcribe > the recordings sometimes encounters situations in which one person or > another at a meeting digresses from the main content and sometimes speaks > off the top their head. There may be incomplete sentences and so difficult > for the listener on playback of the recording to follow the gist of the > conversation without lots of tedious repetition. We are wondering if there > is a decent voice to text program that could assist the person doing the > transcription. I'd really appreciate others experience and wisdom. Thank you > so much! > > Leslie K. Houang > Office of the Provost > Information Technology Professional > [log in to unmask] > 517-355-6464 >