malowi

Thank you I'll try that.

The audio does not match up with the video is there any way to fix that?  I need to see what's going on at certain points during the interview and make note of it in my transcript.

Thank you for any input.

I'm trying to load an M4A file today and all I get is one second of it.  I don't know what to do because the person who sent it to me gets the full file of over an hour in her Express Scribe.  I've tried converting to mp3, reloading the m4a several times and still the 1 second.  It downloads fully in my audio player but that doesn't have a footpedal.  I'm at a loss.  Help!

I can answer question 3.  Up at the top it will say Express Scribe Transcription Software Pro - Licensed software

I don't use the other two features.  Good luck!

Some of my files sound like they are underwater.  I play the same file in another transcription program and they are fine but the other program has no time stamp and has some other disadvantages. 

How can something in HTML5 be converted to play in ES ?

Thank you, jmerrill1960, this is very timely advice for me. It works!

Express Scribe said format not supported (although it came to me as an MP3) put it through Switch, it converted it but it is mono not stereo. I downloaded some codexes that were supposed to help if Switch said format may not be supported, but it's still mono. Is that something that anybody has experience with?

I tried your suggestion but my Hot Keys are not working. I always use my foot pedal, although in the past i've played around with the Hot Keys. But they will not work any more. Do you use your Hot Keys exclusively or is it a combination of Hot Keys and foot pedal? I could really use that time stamp feature as I have some clients who want that and it can really slow one down.

I needed to insert timestamps into various interviews we transcribe, so I Googled this topic and came up with a wide variety of people trying to write Word macros and various work-arounds (such as typing CRTL+T, ALT+TAB, CTRL+V, ALT+TAB, etc.) to insert time stamps.

 

However, I found the easiest way was already built into Express Scribe.

 

To insert timestamps into a Word document, in Express Scribe go to Settings, then select Pedals and Hot Keys. Click Add at the bottom of the box to create a System-wide Hot Key. A Window pops up asking you to press a key. In my version of Express Scribe F1 and F11 are free. I chose F1. Then a Select Command box pops up. Scroll down to Copy Time and select this.

 

Now, as you play the audio file in Express Scribe, all you have to do is press your Hot Key (F1 for me) at the point where you hear the word you want to time stamp, and then CTRL V to paste it in Word.

 

Bingo. Two keystrokes and you're pasting timestamps! And it's a system-wide hot key, so you can insert timestamps into anything.

I habve been downloading WAV files for a long time from various places without a problem and now today I get a message telling me that audio compression codex 8180 is not installed. I went to a free site (FFD show) but could never complete the download, after I declined all their extra offers (not the one for the codec, that I accepted, but their ads for products) it just sort of stopped. I tried that twice. I don't mind paying but I need to know what to get and where to get it.

I have developed a word macro for getting time stamp from express scribe using a shortcut. Now a days am trying to develop a macro for playing audiofile in express scribe, when we click a time stamp in MSword. Please help if anybody have any idea..........................

Times New Roman"]Would you please tell me how you make that macro for getting the time stamp from ES into my Word document? I have several jobs where I have to manuall put in the time stamp every so often, this current one needs it every minute, and would find this very helpful! If the ability for doing that is right there evident on ES, I haven't seen it and am sorry to bother you about this. Thank you ---

Aw, come on guys - doesn't anybody have anything else I can try? I'd be willing to pay for tech help, but the initial response I got from them suggested the older versions that I've already tried. If there is something else I can check, please, please, please let me know. This has really stumped me and I'd really appreciate some suggestions here. Many thanks! Malia

I had the same problem, it's very maddening. I kept playing around with different things and a window popped up and asked me to describe my problem, i did, and he sent me an email with a link that fixed it. Give it a try, it coudln't hurt. Good luck

Nikolay

My sound controls don't work--I can't lower the volume on my es and it's gonna blast my ear drums out. my hot keys don't work either. Does anybody know what's wrong? I have tried deleting and reinstalling es, but that does not help. HELP

It looks like my reply didn't make it up there, but here it is. I was having the same exact problem as you were with .dss files and after converting them with Switch having 0 dictation length--I kept playing around with Switch and ES and then a dialog box popped up that asked me if i wanted to report the problem and so I did, and I got an e-mail with a link to repair the problem, and it worked for me. they sent me the link essetup.zip

Re: Bug scribe 4.16 AccessViolation-GUI-Other-Win51Standard Header|Full Message ViewNikolay Semenkov <nik@nchsoftware.com>AddSunday, November 25, 2007 4:04:39 PMTo:Bug Report Cc:

essetup.zip

I downloaded that link, saved it to my desktop and then ran it.

I went into the file options and checked off the MP3 box, my screen has sort of frozen up and is acting very weird, double images and that kind of thing. It won't exit, won't do anything. I have Vista and am using the newly downloaded 4.16.