Mac All N One Digital Audio Transcription Kit (for OS X Mac Having problems finding a mac compatible transcription software and footpedal? Our All N One Mac Compatible Transcription Kit is made specifically for the Mac, with all the functions of the PC version. Yesterday, I got this email from a reader of this blog. I’ll paraphrase (won’t bore you will the smiles and lols). “Hey Kongo, thanks for all the advice on What would you recommend as the best transcription software for Mac? Thanks, Maggie.” I replied to her email and I thought I should post the reply on my blog for other transcribers that might be searching for a transcription software to use on their mac computers. Now, let me be clear. ![]() By transcription software, I’m referring to software that’s going to assist you manually transcribe audio/video files. I’m not referring to software that automatically converts speech to text: aka dictation software, voice recognition software, speech recognition software. I prefer to refer to these types of software as dictation software. And since we’ve digressed, let me share with you my 2 cents on dictation software. This means you transfer multiple files from Mac to iOS devices one time with different types like several pictures, a video, a PDF file, ePub file, etc. Airdrop not working. It's just a phone or tablet not your Mac computer. But your AirDrop for iOS device is designed to receive items in the appropriate app so it cannot simultaneously handle different file types. The accuracy of dictation software is poor – on average about 60%. Accuracy improves with good quality, single speaker audio. If you’re looking for a dictation software to automatically convert your audio to text, I’d recommend you don’t buy software that’s not cloud based. Here’s why, speech recognition algorithms improve every day (machine learning etc). And you’ll not be able to take advantage of these improvements with an offline software (for instance Dragon Dictate). I’ve tried a few cloud based dictation services and they’re not bad – I got 90% accuracy on a YouTube video transcript. Most use either. Anyway, transcription software are meant for those of us who want to get a software that’s going to assist the manually transcription (= type out the text using our fingers and sometimes our feet!) of audio/video files. To reiterate, the main advantage of a transcription software over a normal audio/video media player is the ability to control audio/video playback. Here were my requirements when I was searching for transcription software for my Macbook Air. Connect the Seagate external “for Mac” drive to the Windows computer. The drive must be connected to the computer during installation or the install will not complete. Formate seagate mac for windows. Seagate internal drives must be formatted before use. Drives that will be bootable are formatted during the process of installing the operating system (ie, Windows or MacOS). Drives that will be used for storage can be formatted according to the instructions below. This volume format accommodates Mac OS X and Mac files the best. Give the drive one FAT32 (MS-DOS) partition, which both Mac OS X and Windows can read and write. This is a good place to put files that you want both Mac and Windows to have read/write access to. Chris – besides the formatting difference, there is software on the PC version and no software on the Mac version. Also, there are two versions of Mac products – FreeAgent Go Pro for Mac (has USB AND Firewire 800), and FreeAgent Go for Mac USB (USB 2.0 only). 1) Easy configurable transcription controls. 2) Support video and audio of various formats and codecs. 3) Timestamp Support. 4) USB foot pedal support. Grab a cup of coffee and let’s look at each one of these in depth. Key Features of a Good Mac Transcription Software • Configurable Transcription Controls Any transcription software worth its salt supports keyboard hotkeys. And they are easily configurable. But the really good ones support global hotkeys. Which means that you are not restricted to typing on the word processing plane provided with the transcription software. Thus, you can transcribe into any word processor of your choice (Pages, Word etc) and the transcription hotkeys will work. And the advantages of using a dedicated word processor are numerous (spell check!). • Support Various Audio and Video Formats As a transcriber, you do want to get a transcription software that supports a wide range of audio and video (very useful for slideshow videos) formats. For me, this is not usually a deal breaker because I can’t expect a transcription software to support all audio and video formats – and there is a lot of them. But a transcription software for mac must support.mp4 video format and.m4v/.m4a/.mp3/.mpg audio files. I have a dedicated audio and video converter that converts audio files to.mp3 files. And the.mp3 format work well on most mac transcription software. • Timestamp Support A lot of my clients ask for timestamps/timecodes to be inserted into the transcripts. Timestamps make it easier for them to refer back to the video or audio. And if they’re using the transcripts to create a paper edit for a documentary project, timecoded transcripts provide the easiest and most efficient way to get a handle on a large block of video footage. So, timecode support is a must. But again, this is a feature that is not very well supported in any of the mac transcription software. They usually do support it on their word processing plane, but getting the timecode to Pages or Word is challenging. There are workarounds that I’ll share with you. • USB Foot Pedal Support Again, most mac transcription software support However, compatibility is an issue and it’s not guaranteed. Having said that, I own the Infinity IN-USB-1 and I’ve yet to come across a mac transcription software that does not support it. Having gone through the 4 basic requirements for a mac transcription software, you really have only 2 choices: F5 or Express Scribe.
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