searching for a tool to extract script from an audio file Thread poster: Brandis (X)
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Brandis (X)
Local time: 14:46
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Hello all!
I am currently and very urgently looking for some script extracting tool from a large audio file. The outsourcer sent me only the audio in mp3 format, and the content needs to be translated...Help
I shall most thankful if you know any such tool and part with that information.
brandis
| | | | | What do you mean exactly? | Jun 14, 2004 |
I do not understand. You have an Audio file with, I suppose, someone speaking? Right?
What do you mean with script?
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Brandis wrote:
Hello all!
I am currently and very urgently looking for some script extracting tool from a large audio file. The outsourcer sent me only the audio in mp3 format, and the content needs to be translated...Help
I shall most thankful if you know any such tool and part with that information.
brandis
[Subject edited by staff or moderator 2004-06-14 18:24]
[Edited at 2004-06-15 08:28]
| | | | | People do this better than Programs | Jun 14, 2004 |
Brandis wrote:
Hello all!
I am currently and very urgently looking for some script extracting tool from a large audio file. The outsourcer sent me only the audio in mp3 format, and the content needs to be translated...Help
I shall most thankful if you know any such tool and part with that information.
brandis
Hi Brandis - this is a tricky one
Thru bitter experience, I have (finally)learned to turn these jobs down unless:
1. the client provides me with a written transcript (which can take a week or more to prepare), particularly for films / lectures with poor audio quality.
2. The client pays me (or someone else) to transcribe the text (using Express Scribe for mp3 files), which takes about 3 hours x hour of good quality recording.
BEST SOLUTION: play the mp3 file back SLOWLY on Express Scribe (free download from nch.com.au) and translate directly from what you hear, pausing as needed.
If you are a simultaneous interpreter and have two computers, you can listen to the mp3 file on one machine and translate verbally on to the other using any good speech-to-text program. I do this quite a lot, but it's stressful and very tiring. You also need a completely quiet environment free from all interruptions, which is possible in my office only before dawn.
FYI: I've tried running the original mp3 files thru several speech-to-text programs with disastrous effects.
If you manage to find a program that does all this, ps let me know!
| | | | Brandis (X)
Local time: 14:46
English to German
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TOPIC STARTER | the job is audio to audio | Jun 14, 2004 |
Toledo wrote: I do not undertand. You have a Audio file with, I suppose, someone speaking? right? What do you mean with script? I do not undertand. You have a Audio file with, I suppose, somone speaking? right? What you mean with script? ...?HI!toledo, now I have two files each around 7 hours from educational area one from English into German and the other the otherway back. What I need to do is to listen to the mp3 file and generate the content in a script and translate and repress on to the product video. Considering 7 hours of spoken text, it is really voluminous. So I am urgently looking for some tool that could make life littlt bit easy. Brandis Brandis wrote:
Hello all!
I am currently and very urgently looking for some script extracting tool from a large audio file. The outsourcer sent me only the audio in mp3 format, and the content needs to be translated...Help
I shall most thankful if you know any such tool and part with that information.
brandis
[Subject edited by staff or moderator 2004-06-14 18:24]
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A 7 hours mp3, that means about 420 MB (if stereo). That is a lot. Well I would divide it in 10 minutes pieces.
With Dragon naturally Speaking you can, supposedly, write directly into Word your spoken file. I never do it, but for sure you will need to edit it (time consuming).
With Wavelab (I think there is a trial version)or any other Audio aplication, you can divide the file into pieces (about 40) than one afer one translate it and record (I hope you have a nice voice![]() ... See more A 7 hours mp3, that means about 420 MB (if stereo). That is a lot. Well I would divide it in 10 minutes pieces.
With Dragon naturally Speaking you can, supposedly, write directly into Word your spoken file. I never do it, but for sure you will need to edit it (time consuming).
With Wavelab (I think there is a trial version)or any other Audio aplication, you can divide the file into pieces (about 40) than one afer one translate it and record (I hope you have a nice voice )
and later paste all the new 40 translated files together.
I do not think there is a "magic" program for that. It is a "ants" job.
Sorry ▲ Collapse
| | | | Brandis (X)
Local time: 14:46
English to German
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TOPIC STARTER | Thank you for the analysis | Jun 15, 2004 |
Toledo wrote: A 7 hours mp3, that means about 420 MB (if stereo). That is a lot. Well I would divide it in 10 minutes pieces. With Dragon naturally Speaking you can, supposedly, write directly into Word your spoken file. I never do it, but for sure you will need to edit it (time consuming). With Wavelab (I think there is a trial version)or any other Audio aplication, you can divide the file into pieces (about 40) than one afer one translate it and record (I hope you have a nice voice ) and later paste all the new 40 translated files together. I do not think there is a "magic" program for that. It is a "ants" job. Sorry
Greets
Brandis
| | | | Brandis (X)
Local time: 14:46
English to German
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TOPIC STARTER | there is a audio and video file splitter | Jun 15, 2004 |
Toledo wrote: A 7 hours mp3, that means about 420 MB (if stereo). That is a lot. Well I would divide it in 10 minutes pieces. With Dragon naturally Speaking you can, supposedly, write directly into Word your spoken file. I never do it, but for sure you will need to edit it (time consuming). With Wavelab (I think there is a trial version)or any other Audio aplication, you can divide the file into pieces (about 40) than one afer one translate it and record (I hope you have a nice voice ) and later paste all the new 40 translated files together. I do not think there is a "magic" program for that. It is a "ants" job. Sorry
Hello Toledo! news - there is a audio and video file splitter at www.zealotsoft.net it is called allsplitter.exe , comes as trial too.
[Edited at 2004-06-15 20:02]
| | | | Brandis (X)
Local time: 14:46
English to German
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TOPIC STARTER | further tools | Jun 17, 2004 |
Toledo wrote: A 7 hours mp3, that means about 420 MB (if stereo). That is a lot. Well I would divide it in 10 minutes pieces. With Dragon naturally Speaking you can, supposedly, write directly into Word your spoken file. I never do it, but for sure you will need to edit it (time consuming). With Wavelab (I think there is a trial version)or any other Audio aplication, you can divide the file into pieces (about 40) than one afer one translate it and record (I hope you have a nice voice ) and later paste all the new 40 translated files together. I do not think there is a "magic" program for that. It is a "ants" job. Sorry
greets
brandis
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Brandis (X)
Local time: 14:46
English to German
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TOPIC STARTER | I have found a solution | Jun 24, 2004 |
Toledo wrote: A 7 hours mp3, that means about 420 MB (if stereo). That is a lot. Well I would divide it in 10 minutes pieces. With Dragon naturally Speaking you can, supposedly, write directly into Word your spoken file. I never do it, but for sure you will need to edit it (time consuming). With Wavelab (I think there is a trial version)or any other Audio aplication, you can divide the file into pieces (about 40) than one afer one translate it and record (I hope you have a nice voice ) and later paste all the new 40 translated files together. I do not think there is a "magic" program for that. It is a "ants" job. Sorry
Greets
Brandis
| | | | Luca Tutino 
Italy
Member (2002)
English to Italian
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Brandis wrote:
I shall explain this in the HOWTO documents.
Well done! Please do not forget to post a note here as soon as you upload your HOWTO.
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