A text editor

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dinosaur
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A text editor

Post by dinosaur » Mon Nov 30, 2009 12:18 am

Hello,

I do a lot of voice transcriptions and end up writing the transcriptions in 'Label" . This is not the best way to do this as "Label" doesn't keep things lined up well. Nor can I get it to output to a text file.

Would it be possible to get some kind of an editor that would take the place of 'Label"? I get very short sections of voice that can take up pages and other sections that don't. Also different speakers need to somehow be delineated. I was thinking that the easiest way would be to have 'Label", or a text editor, be able to use several different colors for text that would be readily at hand. Each sound section "grayed out" could go to a different page.

Thank You.

Irish
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Re: A text editor

Post by Irish » Tue Dec 01, 2009 4:42 pm

If you Export your label track (File > Export Labels), Audacity creates a text file containing each label's text and its position on the timeline.

The rest of what you want can be done in your text editor.

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Re: A text editor

Post by dinosaur » Tue Dec 01, 2009 5:37 pm

Thanks PO'L,

That didn't occur to me. Will try it.

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