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Posted by Gary Carson
Sep 19, 2013 at 02:06 AM
Note:
For a long time now, I’ve been looking for a program that will let me search audio files for a specific spoken word or phrase and take me to that section of the file. As far as I know, nothing like this exists.
OneNote lets you embed and index audio files. I’ve experimented with this using OneNote 2007, but it didn’t do what I wanted it to. Not exactly. OneNote will search the audio files for a word or phrase (that you type in), but if it finds the relevant string, it will only tell you which file it was in. You still have to listen to the whole file to find the information.
Audio Notetaker doesn’t search audio files, but it does search its written notes, so you could use its search function to find certain annotations if they exist. How well this works depends on how thoroughly you annotate the files.
Ultimately if you’re dealing with audio files, you end up listening to them. You should be as concise as possible when taking notes, but you can divide the files into multiple sections in Audio Notetaker. My Audio Notetaker PIM is full of short audio clips. A lot of them are only a few seconds or a few minutes long.
Posted by jimspoon
Sep 19, 2013 at 04:09 AM
Gary, that is an interesting approach. I have watched videos about audio notetaker and installed it once - didn’t give it much of a workout. I was really put off by the price - $150 USD !! I might buy if it were a lot less - but I guess for some people, what it does is so helpful that it is worth it.
It is strange that OneNote recognizes the words that are spoken, but doesn’t transcribe it (probably because of the inevitable misrecognitions and need for correction) or at least take you to the specific part of the audio where the searched terms are found. I wonder if that has changed in later versions of OneNote?
At your suggestion I did start dictating the time into my voice memos so that the time will show up in the Dragon transcription - that helps. Because of the nature of my notes, I am constantly saying the words “new line” so that little bits of speech are put on separate lines in DragonPad. Beyond that I don’t try to put in much of the Dragon dictation commands.
jim
Posted by Alexander Deliyannis
Sep 19, 2013 at 07:01 AM
jimspoon wrote:
>Gary, that is an interesting approach. I have watched videos about
>audio notetaker and installed it once - didn’t give it much of a
>workout. I was really put off by the price - $150 USD !! I might buy
>if it were a lot less - but I guess for some people, what it does is so
>helpful that it is worth it.
If you are interested, I suggest you keep an eye on it at Bits du Jour; it should eventually reappear there.
Posted by Slartibartfarst
Sep 19, 2013 at 08:42 AM
Gary Carson wrote:
>For a long time now, I’ve been looking for a program that will let me
>search audio files for a specific spoken word or phrase and take me to
>that section of the file. As far as I know, nothing like this exists.
>
>OneNote lets you embed and index audio files. I’ve experimented with
>this using OneNote 2007, but it didn’t do what I wanted it to. Not
>exactly. OneNote will search the audio files for a word or phrase (that
>you type in), but if it finds the relevant string, it will only tell you
>which file it was in. You still have to listen to the whole file to find
>the information.
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You may have been omitted something necessary there.
For example, refer: Searching for information in audio notes in OneNote - http://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=31755.msg302855#msg302855
“It takes you straight to the audio clip and the position (time) in the audio clip that the searched item occurs:”
Posted by Gary Carson
Sep 19, 2013 at 08:24 PM
I was put off by Audio Notetaker’s cost as well, but I finally picked it up at half-price the last time it was on Bits du Jour.