It’s like eating what’s in your fridge before you go back out shopping. Again, I use this partly because it (kinda) works, but mostly because I have it. I use an older version of Dragon Dictate. Ok, now I do a rough pass of this separated audio in a voice transcription app.

I can’t figure it out, but you probably could. Or I don’t know, rig Soundflower to do the same thing. You don’t have to listen to your own stupid self! Totally worth the price of admission. It gives you a pristine audio file with no trace of your own voice. This last part turns out to be important. It can easily split the recorded audio into two files, one for each side of the conversation.I can set it to record Skype calls automatically.But I like Call Recorder for a few reasons:

There are also ways to rig Skype and your sound card to dump audio into a file. There are a bunch of call recording programs for Skype. The rest of us sinners, we have to do this. If you have a landline from which you can easily record incoming audio… do that. Most of what I do these days is interview sources and contacts on the phone. But it’s common, and you can do app-to-app calls or call an outside phone number. Some of them I even paid American money for.ĬallRecorder for Skype. This setup requires a few pieces of software. You know, like how the internet used to be! I feel much happier about this than any of my previous setups, which leaned a little too heavily on procrastination and weeping.Īlso, I recently read Friend of the Snark Charlie Loyd’s entry on “The Setup” about the tools he uses, and feel correspondingly moved to actually tell people how I do things in the hope that they might add, improve, adopt, critique, be entertained, or otherwise benefit from it. I recently reevaluated my rig for transcribing recorded audio and thoroughly reworked it.

Like the horizon, the Singularity, or the coming of the Messiah, the Speakularity is always ever-so-slightly in the distance. Matt coined (or at least first wrote about) “ the Speakularity” in 2010: “the moment when automatic speech transcription becomes fast, free and decent.”įive years and change later, we’re still not exactly there! But we are closer.

Wavepad audio splitter