Getting the text from Audio

I noticed Steve said in one of his latest videos that he uses software/a site to transcribe audio for free. Does anyone know what it is called? Also does anyone know how to get audio from a video or does the site work with videos? Thanks.

I donā€™t know about a speech-to-text service, but as for your second question, If you have a video file the program ā€˜Audacityā€™ can extract the audio. Thatā€™s an audio processing program that is normally used with just audio files, but it will recognize a video file and extract the audio. Then you can export the audio as an MP3, WAV, etc. file. https://www.audacityteam.org/

There are a number of browser plugins (for Firefox and Chrome as far as I know) that facilitate downloading a video as a file. I donā€™t know of a site that will give you the audio given a link to a video, but that would be easier.

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I recently did a bit of investigation on this topic, and found no free solutions. On average, I found a price of 9-10 dollars per hour of machine-generated audio to text.

Hi, if you own a Windows PC, give ā€œDragon Naturally Speakingā€ (Home Edition) a try. It works very well but you have to train it with your own voice. If you own a Mac, I think there is a voice recognition function embedded in the OS.

I did a massive investigation on this topic. I actually got a paid software called ā€œDragon Naturally Speakingā€, but it turned out not so good, mainly because the best way of getting transcribe audio was through youtube(in terms of accuracy), uploading a video/mp3 player in youtube and then generating an automatic transcript. So for now, Iā€™m using the youtube method.

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I think Steve uses Happy Scribe MP3 to Text | Transcribe MP3 Online - Happy Scribe. Itā€™s a paid service I believe.

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Thanks everyone for the replies. Iā€™ve checked out Happy Scribe and it seems okay, so Iā€™ll probably just go with that. It looks like they give 30 minutes free, so Iā€™ll try that first.

Thanks, I will try this if I donā€™t like ā€œHappy Scribeā€.