![]() The publishers of Transcriva have never replied to my support questions regarding line endings and export options, so to hell with them.2, which I don’t own) can change speed without changing pitch, but it can’t export the transcription as a plain text file (which is why I don’t own it). The old version of Transcriva uses the ancient Mac CR line endings instead of the current Unix-style LF line endings, and I’m tired of converting them.1.2, which I own) changes pitch when it changes speed. Capo has better sound quality than Transcriva.I used to transcribe with Transcriva, which combines audio playback and text editing in a single application, but I’ve switched to the Capo/TextMate combination because: This is an easy combination to type because the three modifier keys are lined up next to each other I can mash them down with my left hand while my right thumb hits the spacebar. I have this command bound to the ⌃⌥⌘⎵ (Control-Option-Command-Space) key combination. Which is simply the three lines of AppleScript turned into a single shell command. The command itself is this one long line, osascript -e 'tell application "Capo" to activate' -e 'tell application "System Events" to tell process "Capo" to keystroke space' -e 'tell application "TextMate" to activate' I do all my writing in TextMate, so I’ve set up a command in the Bundle Editor that looks like this: How you invoke the AppleScript from within the word processor/text editor depends on the particulars of that application. If you get behind, use the AppleScript to pause the recording while you catch up. Switch to your word processor/text editor and start typing. To transcribe a spoken-word recording, you start playing it back in Capo at a speed you can keep up with. The first and third lines shift the foreground application between Capo and the word processor/text editor. The second line is an example of GUI Scripting-it uses the System Events agent to send a space character to Capo, which Capo interprets as a command to pause (if it’s playing) or play (if it’s paused). ![]() Where the ? is replaced with the name of the word processor/text editor. Tell application "System Events" to tell process "Capo" to keystroke space ![]() The AppleScript will look something like this: tell application "Capo" to activate A way to invoke the AppleScript from the word processor or text editor.The transcription file opened in a word processor or text editor.The audio file opened in Capo with an appropriate speed setting.All that’s required is a little AppleScript. Its creator, Chris Liscio of SuperMegaUltraGroovy, designed it to be used by musicians to help them learn songs, but it can also be used to transcribe spoken-word recordings. Next post Previous post Using Capo for transcriptionĬapo is an application that can independently change the playback speed and pitch of almost any audio file on your Macintosh.
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