This teaches the software phrases and acronyms you commonly use. This is the software’s real strength since it is set up for you to “train the Dragon.” You read stories and it gets smarter by adapting to your own speech patterns and accent. Another amazing feature is running documents you have written and sent emails through it. Photo credit Milan Lauritzen.ĭictate your own story, emails or other documents using your voice. Method #1 – Train it to your own voice: Training Dragon to your own voice is powerful and incredibly accurate. I’ve used Dragon software 4 ways for transcribing audio. Oh, and a disclaimer, these are affiliate links so if you buy this way, I make a commission. I have not used the home edition so I cannot say why it costs less. Check for up-to-date pricing. Also, now there is the app subscription service. If you want to check out costs and buying options, there is a home version on Amazon, and a professional version on Amazon. Some of the sections repeat material covered here, but scroll down because there are other helpful tools and ideas. If you want to read about all the tools I use for transcribing audio all in one place, c lick here for a comprehensive article. This got the job done, and also gave me a good side-by-side comparison of the costs and time involved with each approach. It would have taken me forever to transcribe all of that myself so I clipped the audio into half-hour chunks and sent them out to various services, while transcribing some of the work at home using different methods. Six Hours of Audio Transcribed with various methodsĪs a note, recently I had 6 audio hours from a client day that we spent telling stories.
This article focuses on Dragon, however, so you can click here to read about Google’s speech-to-text function, which is free. That said, when I tried Google’s speech-to-text function to see how the free alternative compares, I was surprised at how good it is. Because I do this for a living, Dragon is my method of choice. As background, I am a professional biographer and do family history work for clients, so I have spent a ridiculous amount of time experimenting with methods for transcribing audio from oral history interviews. That’s a topic for another day, because this is a detailed article for transcribing audio using several different methods courtesy of Dragon by Nuance. What I did not expect was that Dragon would be a game changer for my workflow in general. I have used Dragon Naturally Speaking voice recognition software for transcribing audio a lot. Update: Dragon for Mac is no longer supported but Dragon for PC is still alive and well.
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