The Audio Transcription Tool, is an application which aid with the process of transcribing an audio file. The tool is build around a text editor.

The application runs on Windows. Requires Windows Media Player to be installed in order to run the executable.

Download the application from https://github.com/dbsnap13/AM_scrum/ .

Starting the application: Click on the ATT.exe in order to start the application.

Start by opening the application. From here you're faced with an interface containing components both directed to the audio player and the text editor. You initiate a track by selecting "File -> Open" from the top left menu. A new form appears in which you can select the audio track that you want to transcribe and then click "Open". Additionally, you are able to select several audio tracks which creates a playlist which is navigable. The audio tracks can be of the type Wave or Mp3. The correlating audio player components are now usable in the main application. Start the audio by pressing "Play". Once the audio starts playing there are several functions at your disposal in order to aid you with the actual transcription. You can:

This places a timestamp at the current position inside the texteditor which displays the current time of the audio track.

This allows you to enter a number of seconds that you want to repeat continuously. To stop repeating, simply press Repeat again.

Allows for the creation of a label by selecting a section of text in the texteditor. These are then browsable from the list placed in the bottom right. By selecting a label from the list you can then navigate to the correlating position in the texteditor.

This allows you to set the speed rate of the audio track. This can also be done automatically by checking the checkbox. In this case, the speed rate is adjusted based on your typing speed.

You can easily navigate to a certain point of the audio track by dragging the trackbar.

Allows you to create a predefined list of names that can be used when timestamping. Names are toggled by F6. e.g. [Timestamp] Juror1:[text]

For your comfort, there are also available shortcuts for the various functionality which is displayed either in the menu "Audio" or by the respective tooltip for each component. An example being F2 for Play. Regarding the text editor, there are options to change the font style for the selected text e.g., adding Bold, Italic or even changing the size of the text. The text editor also has an implemented spellchecker for two languages at the moment. English-US is set to default but German is also applicable. This can be changed at run time.

Happy transcribing!

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