

Transcription transferred to Word document. You can choose to add the text to your document with or without the additional information - just click on your choice. A timestamp identifying when in the recording the words were spoken.An attempt to differentiate and identify the speaker.(Screenshot: )Īs you can see from the transcript, the document can include three types of information: Options for adding a transcript to the document. When you’re done, click on Add to document for a list of options. You can do this later, after the transcript has been transferred to the document, but this allows you to do so while simultaneously listening to the audio, one segment at a time. For example, I might replace the “?” with a period in the first sentence, since it’s a statement and not a question, and I’d replace “ask Leo.

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Automated transcription is always inaccurate to some degree, so using this tool, you can listen to segments of the audio and make manual edits to the transcription. In this interface, you can listen to the audio and make corrections to the transcript simultaneously. Transcription in panel, ready for editing. Once completed, the transcription, along with audio play controls, will appear in the panel. It may take some time, depending on the length and quality of the recording. Once you do so, the transcription will begin processing. More interesting is to click on Upload audio and upload an audio file. You can click on Start recording to simply speak and have a transcription created. (Screenshot: )Ĭlick on Transcribe in the resulting menu this will open a panel on the right-hand side. (If there’s no down-arrow, make sure you’re visiting the web version of Word, not running your installed desktop software.) Transcribe menu item. Start with a blank document and click on the small down-arrow next to the “Dictate” microphone icon. The desktop version doesn’t appear to have this feature. The “trick”, such as it is, is to visit on the web and use the online version of Microsoft Word to perform the task. Use that to upload audio files for Word to process into text, optionally including speaker identification and timestamps.

Using the online version of Microsoft Word with an Office subscription, the “Dictate” main menu item includes a “Transcribe” option.
