Software updates, tips, and user stories
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One of our most requested features is text styling. Transcription services sometimes require formatting. Researchers find it helpful to use styles for coding. Writers find it useful for expression. While we have long considered adding support for text styling, we decided to keep InqScribe documents simple for a number of reasons, including performance, simplicity of…
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Many of our customers need to export transcripts in a structured format, with separate columns for “In” and “Out” points and speaker names. This is particularly useful for captions, especially for broadcast. One common workflow is to export an Excel spreadsheet, where each line effectively becomes a record. For example: InqScribe’s free-form edit field provides…
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Yes, InqScribe supports macOS 27 aka “Golden Gate”. The main updates to macOS 27 are the user interface and Apple Intelligence, specifically Siri AI. You’ll see some refinement of the user interface, especially for windows. But these changes are relatively minor. InqScribe uses Whisper as our AI model, which is a completely separate AI model…
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If you are collaborating on a project with other people, you can use most cloud services to share your transcript and media. InqScribe will automatically look for media in the same folder as your transcript. You can then share that folder with others and they will be able to open your InqScribe document and your…
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InqScribe Version 2.5 for macOS is now available! This new Mac version is a free upgrade for all currently licensed users. Just download and install the new version and it should automatically use your current license. Download the release here. Version 2.5 has a host of new features, including: Modernization InqScribe 2.5 is a native 64-bit…
A new version of our InqScribe 2.5 beta is now available for macOS. As you may already know, version 2.5 is an upcoming update that brings a new HD interface, an improved media engine, and full macOS Catalina/Big Sur support. Both this public beta and the soon-to-come official release will be free to current InqScribe…
An occasional series where we share interesting stories about InqScribe from our users. If you have a story you’d like to share, contact us! Professor Nsir Malik (ret.), a founding member of Pakistan Television, media professional, and currently retired teacher has been using InqScribe to do charity work with media students in Pakistan. Some…
Part of the fun of interacting with our customers is finding out what they’re working on. Filmmaker Matthew Bowyer is working on a documentary about real life James Bonds…though perhaps not what you think: by Matthew Bowyer ‘The Other Fellow’ is a documentary about the lives of real men around the world – who are named…
Finding the right workflow for a project can be a challenge, especially when you have multiple languages, multiple tools, and multiple collaborators in the mix. In our latest guest blog, Chad Braham, an editor and Director of Media Production at WORDonCancer.org describes in very helpful detail how they’ve developed a translation workflow that starts in…
We’ve just released a minor update to InqScribe: version 2.1.1. This is a free upgrade for all users. Download the update here. Primarily, the update improves the behavior of timecode-specific fields (such as the Start Time field) to better match Final Cut Pro’s behavior. In addition, InqScribe will now automatically download updates for you. Also,…