A lecturer has interviewed a number of students and recorded her questions and their responses which she now has to note/document in a word document. Would Dragon Naturally Speaking voice recognition software allow her to process these audio files through the software to translate this audio into text?

We have spoken to Dragon Naturally Speaking suppliers who say that unfortunately Dragon would not be able to transcribe these recordings as it is unable to transcribe for more than one user profile at any one time. Also I think it would struggle with the conversational style of the recording. Dragon works well when the speaker is dictating but struggles with natural conversation that is not in structured sentences. There are some researchers who have used Audio Notetaker as an interface for reviewing audio recordings and making notes from them.

http://www.dyslexic.com/notetaker_demo/Audio-Notetaker-demo.htm

The new version of Audio Notetaker has a specific playback mode for when users are transcribing from the recording. This may help when reviewing audio recordings but it won’t transcribe speech into text.