A few months ago, my trusted set of transcription headphones disintegrated. After 5 years of faithful service, the plastic headband that held them together broke. I tried to get another pair, but the manufacturer had discontinued the model. So I set out to find another pair of transcription headsets to work with. After trying out […]
This post is a step by step guide on how to copy multiple folder names in Windows to a text file. Let’s jump right into it. Step 1: Open Notepad The first step is to open a text editing software on your windows computer. I’ll use plain old Notepad for this tutorial, but you can […]
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 […]
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 […]
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. […]
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 […]