Plover for transcription with foot pedal

[Roslyn Sim]

Hello

I am getting steno practice by writing transcripts for a weekly video blog (they then get fed into YouTube's captioning tool). Being only a beginner, I can't yet work verbatim, so I need to stop, rewind and restart the video frequently. To make life easier, I'm considering getting a foot pedal. Does anyone know enough about these (for a Mac) to be able to point me in the right direction? Do you need special software too, or can they be used as-is on YouTube videos?

Thanks so much,
Ros

[Ellis Pratt]

I bought an Apple Magic Trackpad for a similar issue. I guess it could be laid on the floor if you were barefoot.

[Glen Warner]

Hi, Roslyn.

A few months ago, one of my Facebook friends asked me to write up something about transcription work, scoping and proofreading -- a sort of "mile-high view" of it all. You can read it here:

http://www.cheapandsleazy.net/proofing.html

... and there's a link to where I bought my foot pedal in there.

Good luck!

--gdw

[Mirabai Knight]

You don't even need a footpedal! Just import the YouTube video into
Amara and define whatever steno stroke you like (I use KH-FG) to
{#Shift_L(Tab)}. Boom. Now you can rewind at will without taking your
fingers off the steno keyboard.

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[Ellis Pratt]

I knew I'd seen something like this, but I couldn't remember. 

There's similar functionality in VLC player. 

[Mirabai Knight]

Supposedly, but I've had trouble getting VLC player's global hotkeys
to work. Winamp's works fine, though; just set "rewind" to Shift+Tab,
and you're solid.

[Roslyn Sim]

Thanks! I'll go have a read :-)

[Roslyn Sim]

Great! I'll go look for Amara :-)

[Roslyn Sim]

Hi Mirabai

I used Amara for this week's AXSChat video - thanks for putting me onto it :-). My main issue with using it and Plover at the same time was that the autocorrect would sometimes jump in for multi-stroke words and prevent me from continuing to write until I rescued it (presumably because I'm not fast enough at steno?).

Do you think it's better to use a tool like Amara to manually decide where the breaks between lines and captions are, or is the YouTube facility that automatically handles the timing when you feed it a transcript reasonable?

In case anyone else is interested, I also found a more basic tool called "oTranscribe" that lets you pause, rewind, play, etc. using key commands. It only works to provide a transcript document, though, and not timed captions. If the YouTube timing facility is adequate, it would be fine.

Thanks,
Ros