Medicine transcription - Delay on 4-18-205

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Delay on 4-18-205

CyberCafe

2005-04-19, 10:10 am

Linda,

Sorry for the delay on 20NSM-2005-8209-X17. I probably will not finish
proofing it until tomorrow (the whole thing is typed). Part of this
presentation includes a whole bunch of people who are presenting their
team commitments, which is not being repeated by the speakers, so what
they are saying is important, and eliminating that would basically
destroy part of that transcript. I can hear all of these people just
fine as far as volume goes, however, the speed of the audio file is just
a little too fast so that all the men sound pretty much the same, can't
tell them apart, and there are a few spots that need to be slowed just
so I can understand what was said.

So basically I've been fiddling with audio software trying to get the
audio file down to normal speed and saving it to an appropriate audio
format to work with one of the transcribers. The file plays fine in
Olympus but there is no speed control on wave files. Same for
Bytescribe; no speed control with wave. ExpressScribe has been giving
me grief for about a week, so it's useless to me right now (no sound at
all).

Just wanted you to know what's going on.

Barb

djgordon

2005-04-19, 10:10 am

I hope you resent this to the correct recipient.

Dani

Eliyahu Rooff

2005-04-19, 10:10 am

"CyberCafe" <pkbk@badger.tds.net> wrote in message
news:4264779a_3@newspeer2.tds.net...
> Linda,
>
> Sorry for the delay on 20NSM-2005-8209-X17. I probably will not
> finish proofing it until tomorrow (the whole thing is typed). Part of
> this presentation includes a whole bunch of people who are presenting
> their team commitments, which is not being repeated by the speakers,
> so what they are saying is important, and eliminating that would
> basically destroy part of that transcript. I can hear all of these
> people just fine as far as volume goes, however, the speed of the
> audio file is just a little too fast so that all the men sound pretty
> much the same, can't tell them apart, and there are a few spots that
> need to be slowed just so I can understand what was said.
>
> So basically I've been fiddling with audio software trying to get the
> audio file down to normal speed and saving it to an appropriate audio
> format to work with one of the transcribers. The file plays fine in
> Olympus but there is no speed control on wave files. Same for
> Bytescribe; no speed control with wave. ExpressScribe has been giving
> me grief for about a week, so it's useless to me right now (no sound
> at all).
>
> Just wanted you to know what's going on.
>
And thank you for sharing... Don't you hate it when you hit the wrong
button? :-)

Eliyahu

CyberCafe

2005-04-19, 10:51 pm

djgordon wrote:
> I hope you resent this to the correct recipient.

>
> Dani
>
>
Boy, this is real strange as I wasn't even in the newsgroup section of
my e-mail program. No wonder I didn't get a response. Am done with
that project anyway.

Barb

CyberCafe

2005-04-19, 10:51 pm

CyberCafe wrote:
> Linda,
>
> Sorry for the delay on 20NSM-2005-8209-X17. I probably will not finish
> proofing it until tomorrow (the whole thing is typed). Part of this
> presentation includes a whole bunch of people who are presenting their
> team commitments, which is not being repeated by the speakers, so what
> they are saying is important, and eliminating that would basically
> destroy part of that transcript. I can hear all of these people just
> fine as far as volume goes, however, the speed of the audio file is just
> a little too fast so that all the men sound pretty much the same, can't
> tell them apart, and there are a few spots that need to be slowed just
> so I can understand what was said.
>
> So basically I've been fiddling with audio software trying to get the
> audio file down to normal speed and saving it to an appropriate audio
> format to work with one of the transcribers. The file plays fine in
> Olympus but there is no speed control on wave files. Same for
> Bytescribe; no speed control with wave. ExpressScribe has been giving
> me grief for about a week, so it's useless to me right now (no sound at
> all).
>
> Just wanted you to know what's going on.
>
> Barb

Maybe this error is for the best because I do have a couple of questions
regarding playback speed. These are wave files. For some reason, and
maybe it's due to the SP2 update around the same time, my ExpressScribe
will attempt to load the audio file, but it's so slow (20 minutes or
more), and then in most cases either there is no sound or the sound is
real choppy; about one second of actual playback followed by 15 seconds
of silence. I ran the source audio file through GoldWave and can get
the audio to slow down to normal speed with nice sound quality. Is it
possible to hook up a foot pedal to GoldWave? Trying to figure out under
which format to save the GoldWave results, because there's a big list of
choices, has been a nightmare. There's no property information that I
can find about the original file so I don't know what format it is in
other than generic wave. If I let GoldWave select the save format,
which I assume is based on what the source file is, I can't open the
resulting newly saved file in any of the transcribers.

Anyone have any suggestions, comments? I also upgraded my sound card,
so it's compatible with SP2, but that didn't seem to make any difference.

Barb

Eliyahu Rooff

2005-04-22, 8:48 am