Kate,
If you think that you are going to be able to feed your recording into a speech recognition engine and transcribe it, then the answer is, no chance! The quality of your recording won't be good enough and even the best Speech Recognition software (Dragon Naturally Speaking V 11) couldn't cope with the change in voices.
If you listen to the recording and dictate it simultaneously into the microphone, you stand a better chance.
There is a free Dragon app for the i-Phone, but I doubt it would be convenient for what you want. Windows 7 has Speech Recognition software built in. Those are the only viable free SR that I am aware of. Stay away from sourceforge unless you are very techie and enjoy getting things to work more than using them.
So it depends a bit on how you value your time.
We have more information on the pros and cons of SR on our website at www.dyslexic.com/dictcomp, albeit more from the POV of disabilities.
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Hi Kate,
I looked into this recently and identified Transcriber: http://trans.sourceforge.net/en/presentation.php
It's not been updated for a while and it might be a little out of date. I haven't had an opportunity to use it yet so I'd welcome any feedback!
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Selena
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Kat,
If I have understood your request correctly what you need is voice recognition software. The best package I know (although it is a long time since I used it) is Dragon NaturallySpeaking. I've not seen voice recognition software used to transfer a voice recording but it would be interesting to try it. If it is an interview that usually means two voices which might upset it (it's normal to train the software to your voice) but I would still give it a try.
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