Using ScribeBuddy for MP3 to Text Transcription

Step-by-Step Guide

Uploading Your MP3 File

Welcome to ScribeBuddy,

In this blog, we will share an example of transcribing a mp3 audio version of a speech by former President John F Kennedy. The original video is available on YouTube and link is posted below. We have the mp3 and the result will be the transcription of the audio.

This is the video of the speech.

This is the mp3 audio of the same speech.

Transcribe

Once you log in, we upload the audio file using the option available on the web site dashboard. We upload the file, choose the language as English and submit the video. Once submitted, the file will be processed in a few minutes. We upload the file open the upload dialog and you can now select a file you'd like to upload.

You can either drag and drop a file or click "Browse Files" to choose a file.

Viewing Transcription Results

After submitting your file, you will get the results on the below page. You can view the text by clicking on the icon at the far left.

We get the following transcription

Downloaded Transcript with timestamp enabled

Start: 00:00:05 End: 00:00:59 We meet in an hour of change and challenge, in a decade of hope and fear, in an age of both knowledge and ignorance. The greater our knowledge increases, the greater our ignorance unfolds. No man can fully grasp how far and how fast we have come, but condense, if you will, the 50, 000 years of man's recorded history in a time span of about a half a century. Stated in these terms, we know very little about the first 40 years, except at the end of them, advanced man had learned to use the skins of animals to cover them. Then about 10 years ago, under this standard, man emerged from his caves to construct other kinds of shelter.

Start: 00:01:01 End: 00:01:28 Only 5 years ago, man learned to write and use a cart with wheels. Christianity began less than 2 years ago. The printing press came this year. And then, Less than 2 months ago, during this whole 50-year span of human history, the steam engine provided a new source of power. Newton explored the meaning of gravity.

Start: 00:01:29 End: 00:02:12 Last month, electric lights and telephones and automobiles and airplanes became available. Only last week did we develop penicillin and television and nuclear power. This is a breathtaking pace And such a pace cannot help but create new ills as it dispels old. So it is not surprising that some would have us stay where we are a little longer, to rest, to wait, if this capsule history of our progress teaches us anything. It is that man in his quest for knowledge and progress is determined and cannot be deterred.

Start: 00:02:16 End: 00:02:48 We shall send to the moon, 240, 000 miles away, a giant rocket more than 300 feet tall, on an untried mission to an unknown celestial body, and then return it safely to Earth. But why, some say, the moon? Why choose this as our goal? And they may well ask, why climb the highest mountain? Why, 35 years ago, fly the Atlantic?

Start: 00:02:49 End: 00:03:13 We choose to go to the moon! We choose to go to the moon. We choose to go to the moon. We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard. Because that goal will serve to organize and measure the best of our energies and skills.

Start: 00:03:14 End: 00:03:31 Because that challenge is 1 that we're willing to accept, 1 we are unwilling to postpone. And therefore, as we set sail, we ask God's blessing on the most hazardous and dangerous and greatest adventure on which man has ever embarked.