Hi guys. I just want to ask if someone here knows about a program that would convert my recorded audio (a DOCUMENTARY) into text so that I could print out a copy of it and give to the ones that I'm giving the CD. I'm too lazy to write what I'm saying so maybe a software that would subscribe my audio would be a big HELP. Thanks.Buy Dragon Naturally Speaking and spend hours talking into the tutorials until it gets past the point where you say "I want food" and it replies "dogs walk pigs" - then you may have some SUCCESS with getting a computer to do it for you. You will then have to listen through it while reading the text to find all the mistakes. Seriously, if you need a good laugh and are completely bored, take Microsoft's free voice to text setup, don't do any tutorials and see the rubbish it comes up with.

Moral of the story, you have 3 options:
- Just do it manually
- Pay someone to do it for you
- Become a millionaire by be the one who managed to write a computer programme to do this This is Dragon naturally speaking running on WINDOWS XP. Yes, it does take a fair amount of practice to make the dictation work. And no, it does not work well from pre-recorded audio. You have to learn to speak slowly and very clearly for the computer to understand what you say. It is faster than typing, unless you can type LXXX words a minute. As you can see, it has its own little quirks. When I said the word 80, it decided to use Roman letters instead of just the simple numbers eight and zero. No joke! It really did that. I can average about 50 or 60 words a minute this way, and sometimes peeking up to hundred and 20 words per minute. Still, that is much faster than my typing speed, which is somewhere around 25 to 30 words a minute on good days.
Rather than using Dragon naturally speaking, one could just buy a new computer with Windows 7 professional and get the speech recognition built-in. The Windows 7 professional speech recognition is on a par with Dragon NaturallySpeaking. I have used both.
If you want a manuscript of your DOCUMENT, paying somebody else to transcribe it might be the most practical solution. But if you have lots of time on your hands, you could probably dictated over again by listening to yourself on an earpiece and then repeating the phrases slowly and clearly into a microphone. You would have to have a stop button available on your recorder so you could stop the playback while you repeat the phrase clearly and slowly to make it understandable for the speech recognition engine.
I am speaking from actual experience and this entire post was created using Dragon naturally speaking on my computer.