One of the most common tasks that journalists, bloggers or writers have in general is to translate what is said in an interview, recording and any audio in which they talk about a topic into text. This is a somewhat complex activity that involves listening, memorizing, transcribing, going backwards the track, advancing, clarifying the audios to focus the voices, etc., to make this activity a little easier, a Gnome player called Parlatype is born.
What is Parlatype?
Parlatype is a simple audio player that allows us to manually transcribe audio to text easily and very efficiently. It is developed using the C language and works perfectly in the GNOME desktop environment.
The simplicity of the tool allows it to run on any computer, resource consumption is minimal, ease of use is incredible, and your development team is constantly updating the tool.
Parlatype Features
The application has a series of features that helps make voice-to-text transcription more to less, highlighting the following functionalities:
- It has an interface that allows us to visualize the waves of the audio in question, highlighting the pauses, points and voices, this allows us to transcribe the audio following the gaps in the audio.
- You can adjust the audio playback speed according to your preferences.
- One of the features that I like the most about this tool is that every time we pause the audio, it goes back a few seconds, which allows us not to lose the thread of the transcription when it is played again. (you can adjust this option).
- Parlatype has an excellent integration with LibreOffice, so lovers of this office suite will have many more features, however, we can use any office suite when transcribing.
- It has great compatibility with most of the current audio formats, since it comes equipped with the GStreamer framework.
- Integration with multimedia keys.
- Adjustable interface.
- Support for multiple languages.
- A large development community and very detailed documentation.
- Free and open source.
How to install Parlatype?
Parlatype has official support for Ubuntu and derived distros, the installation is quite simple, we just need to install the tool's PPA and then install the application with the following commands:
$ Sudo add-apt-repository ppa: gabor-karsay / parlatype $ sudo apt-get update and & sudo apt install parlatype
Finally run the tool and start enjoying.
Users of other distros can try Parlatype by following the installation from its source code to do so, execute the following commands:
$ git clone https://github.com/gkarsay/parlatype.git
$ cd parlatype
$ ./autogen.sh --prefix=/usr --disable-introspection
$ make
$ sudo make install