You can try google docs voice typing feature (found under "tools"). Set it to the language you're trying to capture. It will capture over the mic so you need relative silence around. Probably works best for very clear and distinct voice (i.e. something with singular voice and little background noise going on).

I've not had a huge amount of luck with this during very limited experimentation. It usually works ok to start, but then stops at some point, but possibly I have some extensions that interfere or my usual 100,000 tabs open or something hogging resources. I generally don't have use for it anyway so I haven't tried it much.

This suggestion is from noxialisrex who has said it's worked pretty good for him in the past.

There are a lot of resources on writing, go online.

OpenAI released their opensource Whisper transcribing tool that does this very well.

I use this program it's not perfect but it's free.

pyTranscriber

https://github.com/raryelcostasouza/pyTranscriber

This explains how to use it

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bIIBCAHf1a8

Google the show's title and include .srt / subtitles. You may get some good results. This works quite well for me and Japanese.

I've gotten meeting transcripts by recording the meeting, uploading the file to Youtube, using the auto-generate subtitles function, and then finding the "show transcript" button in the function tab. It's bit clunky but it's free . . . .

Basically all of the "Big Tech" companies offer speech to text services (STT).

Google: https://cloud.google.com/speech-to-text/

Microsoft: https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/products/cognitive-services/speech-to-text/

Facebook: wit.ai

Amazon: https://aws.amazon.com/transcribe/

They typically expect users to interact with an API, so a basic level of programming / scripting knowledge is helpful. But web interfaces exist, at least for AWS and Google. Still, the first step is always to upload the audio to the respective storage solution (e.g. S3). This involves a bit of clicking around but should be good enough for occasional use.

Personally I have been using AWS Transcribe for Chinese podcasts, I'm happy with the results. It sometimes struggles with names (esp. foreign ones) and when multiple people speak at the same time (doesn't record anything). In general it helps to set the number of speakers option. AWS can output srt and/or vtt subtitle files, those can be imported into LingQ using the "import ebook" functionality, this doesn't allow audio to be synced alongside however.

In general I would expect the quality of these services to be excellent, at least in the major languages. IIRC Google and Microsoft's Chinese transcriptions were't any worse than Amazon's. Pricing should be comparable, but depends on region and currency. I only use Amazon because it is the most convenient for me.

Another service is https://www.iflyrec.com/ it is probably the most used service in Mainland China, it is supposedly excellent, but be aware that creating an account and especially payment can be challenging.

I tried HappyScribe quite a bit. It is just way too expensive though in my opinion, and your not even paying for a transcription that is 100 percent correct.