ginger_hoffman Posted December 15, 2010 Share Posted December 15, 2010 Whenever I have attempted to forward dictation from ExpressScribe, the resulting .dct file is so big it's nearly impossible to get it sent to anyone else. I don't think I've ever actually succeeded in doing so. The last attempt (from transcriptionist back to me) resulted in a file size of 1.15GB (!!) and a very long upload/download time even with cable internet, and then the file crashed ES every one of the three times I tried loading it. I've looked everywhere I can think of for how to change the format it saves/forwards in but have yet to find the answer. I have only attempted to upload to an FTP site and save as a .dct file since it seems there'd be no way to email a 10MB file let alone something over 1GB. This was a 2-hour audio file; longer than usual but even 30-minute files turn into monsters. How do you reduce the file sizes of audio forwarded using ES? Usually it's easy to upload an MP3, WAV, DSS, DVF, etc. file to an FTP site and then load that into ES but sometimes the original audio is just not accessible and I need it from ES. Thank you! Ginger Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Damian Lettie Posted December 23, 2010 Share Posted December 23, 2010 I've looked everywhere I can think of for how to change the format it saves/forwards in but have yet to find the answer. Forwarded DCT's are always created using GSM codec, which should create much smaller files than you're seeing. Are you using Windows? Which version of Scribe? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ginger_hoffman Posted December 23, 2010 Author Share Posted December 23, 2010 Forwarded DCT's are always created using GSM codec, which should create much smaller files than you're seeing. Are you using Windows? Which version of Scribe? Express Scribe v 5.06 Windows 7 Home Premium But I have always had this problem so I avoid sending dictation files with ES altogether. I still love the program, though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Damian Lettie Posted December 28, 2010 Share Posted December 28, 2010 Forwarded DCT's are always created using GSM codec My apologies. I just did a test with Express Scribe v5.10 and it forwarded the dictation using the PCM codec (i.e. a huge file). We'll look into fixing this in the next release. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ginger_hoffman Posted December 29, 2010 Author Share Posted December 29, 2010 Thank you VERY much! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Damian Lettie Posted January 3, 2011 Share Posted January 3, 2011 I just did a test with Express Scribe v5.10 and it forwarded the dictation using the PCM codec (i.e. a huge file). We'll look into fixing this in the next release. Express Scribe v5.13 has now been released, with a fix for this problem. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ginger_hoffman Posted January 3, 2011 Author Share Posted January 3, 2011 Downloaded and installed, thank you. Tested with original WMA audio file 0:07:20.4 with resulting DCT file size of 3.8 MB. Ginger Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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