Does anyone know of a program that will turn .wav files into text (other than VR)?

Thank you.

Catty

.WAV files are audio files, like on an audio CD. Is this the file type you wish converted to text? Are you trying to capture song lyrics?

You can open an audio file using Notepad or Wordpad (use the "All files" filter in the Open Window, Files of type box). The "text" will be just gibberish though, so I doubt that is what you're trying to do.

If you're trying to capture the audio files lyrics, you could go to the song or album's website and see if the lyrics are printed there.

If you're needing something different, please provide more details about what you wish to do.

Dwight

Hi Dwight:

I have a transcription contract. The files will come to me as very long wav files and I must listen and transcribe them, then send the completed work back to my contractor as WordPerfect files.

It would be great if I could find a program that would convert these wav files to text files however inadequately as there is a short turnaround. It would save me a lot of time and typing. I know about VR, but that is cumbersome and often it's quicker to type it.

Thank you.

Catty

Of course I'm not the computer expert that Dwight is, but I was involved in some voice-recognition research back in the early 80s. What you are asking for, Catty, would be some very remarkable software indeed. Don't get your hopes up.

Even automated transcription of carefully spoken speech into text is one tough nut to crack. Extracting the text of lyrics from a recording of singing mixed with music would be a monumentally difficult challenge in artificial intelligence. I'm not sure it's achievable this century!

It's easy to forget how "dumb" computers are -- or how "smart" our brains are -- when it comes to this sort of high-level signal processing. Sorry to be such a pessimist.

That's ok. Many of my dreams are unattainable. Thanks for responding, Professor.

Catty

Well, keep dreaming! And if they ever invent the software you're talking about, I hope it can decipher "Louie Louie" by the Kingsmen.