Variable-speed audio players with constant-pitch ?

[Franklin]

Am looking to make written notes from some voice recordings.
Need freeware audio player which can:

(a) play recordings at varying speeds.

(b) if possible, does not change the pitch
when speeding up (avoids squeaky voice)



Have come across these two freewares so far.
What others are available?


(1) Express Scribe
to 20% faster
http://nch.com.au/scribe/index.html

(2) BestPractice
to 100% faster and constant pitch
http://www.xs4all.nl/~mp2004/bp/

 

[dsmey]

I've played around with Best Practice and it seems pretty good.

You can also do this in an audio editor (like Audacity) - perhaps
crunching it all at once rather than a real-time adjustment will yield
better results?

 

[Derald]

What others are available?

a winamp plugin

 

[Terry]

Am looking to make written notes from some voice recordings.
Need freeware audio player which can:

(a) play recordings at varying speeds.

(b) if possible, does not change the pitch
when speeding up (avoids squeaky voice)



Have come across these two freewares so far.
What others are available?


(1) Express Scribe
to 20% faster
http://nch.com.au/scribe/index.html

Express scribe does have a constant pitch setting.

(2) BestPractice
to 100% faster and constant pitch
http://www.xs4all.nl/~mp2004/bp/

Haven't usedBestPractice. I can't tell from the home page if it has
global hot keys, but that's another feature that's essential if you're
going to trascribe voice recordings. You want to be able to start and
stop the player while you're typing within Word or some other
application, and you don't want to have to do mouse clicks to do so.
So you want a global (across all applications) hotkey for these
operations.

Another useful feature is to have a hotkey that will back the
recording up x seconds, where x is configurable. That lets you
re-listen to a section, or back up 5 seconds when you start the player
again, etc. This is a feature ExpressScribe does not have. Don't know
about BestPractice. I have used it in a $ware application, and it's
great It's really essential for transcribing.

Terry

 

[Franklin]

Have come across these two freewares so far.

Haven't usedBestPractice. I can't tell from the home page if it has
global hot keys, but that's another feature that's essential if
you're going to trascribe voice recordings. You want to be able to
start and stop the player while you're typing within Word or some
other application, and you don't want to have to do mouse clicks to
do so. So you want a global (across all applications) hotkey for
these operations.

That's exactly the sort of thing which would increase the
productivity of BestPractice.

Another useful feature is to have a hotkey that will back the
recording up x seconds, where x is configurable. That lets you
re-listen to a section, or back up 5 seconds when you start the
player again, etc. This is a feature ExpressScribe does not have.
Don't know about BestPractice. I have used it in a $ware
application, and it's great It's really essential for transcribing.

ExpressScribe seems to place heavy reliance on a foot pedal or
something like that. It means that the ergonomics of the freeware
version is a bit awkward. And I have got hours of stuff to
transcribe!

 

[Terry]

That's exactly the sort of thing which would increase the
productivity of BestPractice.

I suppose you could combein BestPractice with a macro program like
AutoIt to get the hot-key feature. PowerPro could do this too. But I
don't see a big advantage over ExpressScribe.

Terry

 

[Franklin]

a winamp plugin

Can only find a pitch/tempo fine setting control. But not a constant
pitch plugin.

 

[smartsw2006]

You can try this EnergyKey
http://www30.webSamba.com/SmartStudio
This may be help you.
Now I always use EnergyKey, it helps me so much in my work.