[DM-MUG] Transcribe a book clarified

[D Reger]

I am taking advice from two or three different people, that "speaking" a 
book is faster than typing and more natural for some of us. For me, 
definitely true. I type in slow motion, with abundant errors.

My Dragon Naturally Speaking is not being used because my Windows 
application has crashed and I can't even try it out, and too broke to 
get the Mac version right now. So I was thinking of recording for 
someone else to type. (In the Philippines?)

These are just challenges to my natural propensity to procrastinate! I 
will prevail! Even if I have to do a picture book with hand written 
script! Oh well.

Thanks for advice on the mic. I have a little Audio Technica USB  mic 
and will try that, as the built in mic doesn't pick up my voice well.

I'm having trouble "attaching" LAME to Audacity in order to export an 
MP3  (that's how you save). I should probably just use the AUP file for 
my purposes, if I transcribe (type) it myself, and the AUP file just 
stays on my Mac. But I will eventually need to /export a file if I have 
someone else type a transcript for my further editing/ (MP3).

I think half of my troubles are just signs of my difficulty overcoming 
resistance to accomplishing the task. I will reread some Barbara Sher to 
remedy that.

Now that I have fessed up to the group about my procrastination habit, 
please hold my feet to the fire to get some kind of book out! Thanks.

Darlene in MO

PS My CD reader doesn't want to work either - could that be related to 
MP3 problem? Should I just rob a bank and get new everything? (Kidding)


On 11/28/10 8:49 AM, Victoria L. Herring wrote:
>>   >  If you were going to "speak" a short book for transcription, how would
>>   >  you record it? (Easiest or least expensive way.)
> *I do have a Q:*   by speaking a book for transcription, you mean
> transcribing a written book into an audio book?  Not transcribing
> audio sounds [words] into written words?  Those are two different
> things and from looking at Audacity, it appears that it takes in
> audio and improves it, or makes CDs or whatever == but doesnt'
> transcribe into writing [which was what I thought was the Q, to
> transcribe into written words] = there are programs that do that =
> and evidently some of the dictation machines [handheld also] will let
> you dictate into them and then transcribe them into the written word.

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