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Foxvideo Productions

Having spent the best part of 40 years looking through a viewfinder of a stills or video camera, sitting in front of a computer editing photos or videos, producing websites and managing content and social media accounts for organisations or individuals, it’s a very strange feeling to now say “I’m retired".

Despite no longer taking on commercial paid work, it’s virtually impossible to suddenly stop what you’ve been doing for the best part of your working life so, for the past few years I’ve been taking on work on a ‘pro-bono’ basis for church, charity or voluntary organisations. I hope that my experience, skills and equipment can now be put to good use by those who perhaps, don’t have the budget or funding to produce what they want or need for their media requirements.

Audio to Text UPDATE

06.02.2023 Filed in: Audio |Post production |Transcribe written by: Dave Farrants

Browsing a pro video forum recently, I spotted an mention of ‘MacWhisper’, this is an AI based App to transcribe audio to text, similar to the Apps and online sites I tried a week ago to transcribe a badly recorded lecture on an audio cassette.

MacWhisper comes with 2 versions, a free version that included the ‘Tiny & Base’ models or a Pro version for $10 which describes itself as “industry leading transcription quality’. It also states it'll work in 100 supported languages and of importance to some, "no data leaves your machine".

Audio to Text?

31.01.2023 Filed in: Audio |Post production |Transcribe written by: Dave Farrants

I had an interesting project for a friend recently, a 23-year-old audio cassette from a talk he wanted to put on CD. He also asked if the audio could be transcribed into a text file

Digitising the audio was not a problem. I fed it from a Yamaha audio cassette deck into an Apple Mac using the free software program Audacity and saved it as a .wav file. The tape audio quality was poor as the microphone was too far away from the speaker, you could hear what the speaker was saying, but it sounded distant and wasn’t that clear.