Express Scribe is free professional audio player software for Mac OS X designed to assist the transcription of audio recordings

The program is installed on the typist's computer and can be controlled using a transcription foot pedal or keyboard (with 'hot' keys). This computer transcriber application also offers valuable features for typists including variable speed playback, multi-channel control, file management and more.

Features:

• Variable speed playback (constant pitch). Supports many professional foot pedals which connect to the game, serial or USB port to control playback.
• Uses 'hot' keys to control playback when using other software (eg. Word).
• Ability to dock both analog and digital portable recorders to load recordings.
• Works with Microsoft Word and all major word-processor applications.
• Automatically receives and loads files by internet (FTP), email or over a local computer network.
• Automatically sends typing to the person who dictated the work.
• Works with speech recognition software such as Dragon Naturally Speaking to automatically convert speech to text.
• Loads CD audio directly - start to work as it loads in the background.
• Can switch to 'mini' mode to reduce screen space.