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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.

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Audio to Text UPDATE

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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".
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Audio to Text?

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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.
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A 'hack' that worked!

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YouTube and Facebook are full of timesaving, or clever hacks for DIY, cleaning and cooking etc, on the odd occasion I've tried one, it seldom seemed to work for me, until now. Just recently I picked up a bargain wireless mic system from FaceBook, I collected it in a hurry and was assured it worked. When I got it home, yes it all worked but the body pack was very 'sticky'. A search on Google said this was a known problem with some types of plastics, clicking on some of the links, the answers all said the solution was bicarb of soda mixed with a little water and just rub the 'stickyness' away - 15 minutes later the body pack looked and felt like new, so I've finally found a hack that worked for me!
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KIMAFUN 2.4G wireless microphone system

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I’ve used Sennheiser wireless mic’s for over 25 years, recently it let me down with an intermittent crackly mic cable which I failed to notice at the time, I do have a spare tie-clip microphone which solved the problem afterwards, but I realised I’d be stuck if it let me down or failed again so, off to Amazon to browse for a ‘standby’ system.
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A Band shoot...

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Over the past 20 years or so we’ve been asked to shoot a few artist / band songs, these usually involved shooting several takes in different locations and using a CD boom box to play the song out for lip syncing, then in the edit, use the CD as the main audio track to sync to the video using the recorded audio, then drop the camera recorded audio for the final video output.
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