[TriLUG] Anybody using a USB (or other) foot pedal?

[Kevin J.]

Hi Andrew, 
I am interested in this topic as well as I am in the captioning/transcription industry (non-profit side anyway). I'm thinking about writing an article on creating subtitles and transcription files using open source software and this would go well. 

I found this post on the nch site which may be helpful: http://nch.invisionzone.com/index.php?showtopic=643&hl=linux. One guy mentions that ExpressScribe for Windows runs well under Wine and the serial foot pedals worked just fine. It seems the Linux version of ExpressScribe doesn't work as well, however. If you end up trying both ExpressScribe and Transcriber, please let me know which one you prefer. I'm sure there are many other teachers who would be interested in doing the same thing and I will include all of this in the article.

Thanks,
Kevin

----- Original Message ----
From: Andrew Perrin <clists at perrin.socsci.unc.edu>
To: trilug at trilug.org
Sent: Wednesday, November 7, 2007 9:28:18 AM
Subject: [TriLUG] Anybody using a USB (or other) foot pedal?


Has anybody used a foot-pedal device under linux? I'd like to buy one
 to 
use in transcribing audio files using, e.g., 
http://trans.sourceforge.net/en/presentation.php .

Thanks,
Andy

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 http://perrin.socsci.unc.edu
Associate Professor of Sociology; Book Review Editor, _Social Forces_
University of North Carolina - CB#3210, Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3210 USA


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