Listen and Write is an interesting online application where you listen to audio clips on the web and type the spoken words at the same time. The audio clips are syndicated from a news website and are always about current events.
There’s a difference between your regular typing software and Listen & Write – here you have to type what you hear not what you see on the screen.
You can create an account to track progress over time. And the application won’t let you proceed unless you get the transcription right.
The app may even help improve the transcription skills of journalists who cover press conferences or even bloggers who are into live blogging.
Listen-and-write.com – Do the Dictation Yourself.
Find this article at: http://www.labnol.org/internet/tools/improve-your-note-taking-skills-with-listen-and-write/3485/
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Reader Comments
This is very helpful for those who are into Transcription type jobs
Written by sanils on 06.03.08
One can also use a text-to-speech apps. I’ve tried something similar using TextAloud, an app that read the text you paste into a multiline text box. Among the controls there is one that determines the speed of the reading (N.B. TextAloud is not free but very cheap)
Written by Marco on 06.04.08
Is there any speech to text software? I need to take down MOM for meeting & wondered if a s/w can automate task for me. Here is some crazy idea- if I can plugin my earpiece to this software. The s/w will convert speech to words which later I can format/ trim & send as MOM. Lol.
Written by Rohit on 06.11.08
I just love this application!!! It is so much fun. Not only I improve my language skills, but I listen to songs or the movie scripts. Though I wish they had more songs. I love the song by Beatles: “Yesterday”! It is very useful that I can listen to news. It helps me a lot to understand BBC or CNN.
The article about Food and Vitamins and the one about elections is fascinating!! I love the variety of different texts you have there!
I wish they had more Czech texts!! I would really love to learn it with listen and write, but you have just 1! Also, my friends talled me that French links do not work at all!!
:( But overall it is a great site!!!
Written by kate on 12.09.08