-
How to Easily Split a Long Audio File into Shorter Audio Files using Audacity
In this post, I’m going to show you how to easily split a long audio file into shorter separate files using Audacity. In a previous post, I showed you how to extract mp3 audio from a DVD using VLC. If your DVD was logically segmented into chapters, songs, episodes and so forth, the extraction process […]
-
How to Easily Copy All filenames in a folder to Excel in Windows
In this short post, I’m going to show you how to easily copy all filenames in a Window folder to Microsoft Excel. First a caveat, the main limitation of the method I’m going to show you, is that you cannot copy filenames in subfolders. If you want to learn how to how to copy filenames […]
-
How to Copy File Names to Excel using CMD
Do you work with a lot of files? I do. And it’s hard and tedious to keep everything organized. An easy way to keep tabs on each file is to copy all the file names into an Excel sheet and use that to keep tabs of the files as they go through our transcription workflow. […]
-
How to Extract mp3 Audio from a DVD using VLC Media Player
There are many instances where you may need to extract the audio from a DVD aka rip audio from a DVD. As a transcriber, I often find it necessary to extract mp3 audio from a client’s DVD for easier transcription. Many software can rip audio from videos and DVDs. However, they’re expensive and sometimes don’t […]
-
Best Transcription Software for Mac
Yesterday, I got this email from a reader of this blog. I’ll paraphrase (won’t bore you will the smiles and lols). “Hey Kongo, thanks for all the advice on choosing a transcription headphone. What would you recommend as the best transcription software for Mac? Thanks, Maggie.” I replied to her email and I thought I […]
-
Best Transcription Foot Pedal
What is the best transcription foot pedal? From my personal experience, it’s the Infinity IN-USB-1 transcription foot pedal. Believe me, I don’t make that statement lightly. And I’ sticking my neck out here, though justifiably, proclaiming that the Infinity is the best transcription foot pedal. But, we’ve jumped the gun. I’ll get into the reasons […]