EllieChu Posted February 24, 2014 Share Posted February 24, 2014 I was curious if any fans of the podcast have converted the .mp3 files to .TEXT files. I would appreciate having many of the FDR podcasts in a .text format because it would be easier for me to be able to read and study his topics. Does anyone have suggestions or advice for this option? It would not only benefit me, but I assume many others Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zippert Posted February 24, 2014 Share Posted February 24, 2014 There is speech to text software out there, but it costs a lot of money. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kevin Beal Posted February 24, 2014 Share Posted February 24, 2014 Somebody has already done a ton of them here. It says that the accuracy is around 98%. That sounds pretty good to me Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MysterionMuffles Posted February 24, 2014 Share Posted February 24, 2014 Wow that's cool Kevin! Didn't know people dedicated their time to transcript so many podcasts. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dsayers Posted February 24, 2014 Share Posted February 24, 2014 Since this topic of trans-media is satisfied, mind if I do a minor jack? I was wondering if anybody knew of a way to convert an ebook to an audiobook faster than realtime. I can get Kindle for PC with Compatibility Plugin to open an ebook and NVDA to read it aloud. However, this is limited both by being realtime and that it will only read what is displayed at one time. I can make Kindle read aloud faster than the MicroMachines guy, but reconstituting it in post only makes it sound more synthesized to the point of being unbearable. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kevin Beal Posted February 24, 2014 Share Posted February 24, 2014 And here are 60 or so done by different people (not a machine like the above one), so the quality is better, but there aren't as many done. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EllieChu Posted February 25, 2014 Author Share Posted February 25, 2014 Thanks Kevin for the wonderful resources! It is a great help and I appreciate all the listeners that took the time to transcribe all those podcasts on the one website. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kevin Beal Posted February 25, 2014 Share Posted February 25, 2014 Thanks Kevin for the wonderful resources! It is a great help and I appreciate all the listeners that took the time to transcribe all those podcasts on the one website. No problem at all! Another tip, in case you want to find a podcast where Stef said something in particular, you can google search the content of these sites. That looks like this (inside the google search field): site:http://readfdr.wordpress.com/ "I like turles" or site:http://freedomainradio.info/index.php/transcripts/ "anarchism FTW" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Prairie Posted February 25, 2014 Share Posted February 25, 2014 For a while Google has allowed elimination of the http:// part in site: searches. So you can just do site:readfdr.wordpress.com "I like turles" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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