If your university gives you an Office 365 account (and Notre Dame does),
Word 365 will transcribe up to 300 minutes of audio per month from a sound
file in the .wav, .mp4, .mpa, or .mp3 formats. In my own (admittedly minor)
tinkering, I've been surprised at how good the transcript is. Microsoft has
a 90 second tutorial here: <
https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/transcribe-your-recordings-7fc2efec-245e-45f0-b053-2a97531ecf57
>.

If you're handy with AWS, you can also use Amazon Transcribe (
https://aws.amazon.com/transcribe/), but that is much more involved. I have
no experience myself, though some colleagues have had success with larger
projects there.

Best,
Dan


On Fri, Oct 21, 2022 at 1:58 PM Lolis, John <[log in to unmask]>
wrote:

> I don't have technology to offer for that purpose, but if you decide to go
> with a service, I can tell you that I've found Amara to be very affordable,
> of excellent quality and fantastic customer service.  I used them to not
> only caption videos but to also translate them from several languages.  I
> couldn't have asked for a better experience with them, and that was after
> some back and forth working things out over the extra languages.
>
> https://amara.org/
>
> John Lolis
> Coordinator of Computer Systems
>
> 100 Martine Avenue
> White Plains, NY  10601
>
> tel: 1.914.422.1497
> fax: 1.914.422.1452
>
> https://whiteplainslibrary.org/
>
> *“I would rather have questions that can’t be answered than answers that
> can’t be questioned.”*
> — Richard Feynman
> <
> https://click.fourhourmail.com/5qure95xkf7hvvo93wh2/7qh7h8h05vr4zrtz/aHR0cHM6Ly9lbi53aWtpcGVkaWEub3JnL3dpa2kvUmljaGFyZF9GZXlubWFu
> >,
> theoretical physicist and recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1965
>
>
> On Fri, 21 Oct 2022 at 13:20, Eric Lease Morgan <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
> > Do you know of a video to text applications? I colleague asked me:
> >
> >   I have four video recordings of conference sessions and wonder if
> >   there is a tool or technology that will help me transcribe these
> >   into the written word?
> >
> > Do y'all have any suggestions or experience in this regard?
> >
> > --
> > Eric Morgan
> > University of Notre Dame
> >
>


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