Voice file player, the unavoidable integral part of medical transcription!  How many choices do you have in that?  Well, this week, I tried to do some research on the available freewares on the internet.  In the early days of my transcription career when I started with CBay Systems, I was working with Medipro, a voice file player designed exclusively for CBay Systems (not available for public download).  Out of CBay, I have also worked with the voice file players Trans-Aid and Trans-Assist for which I couldn’t find a reliable download source or any information on the internet.  Currently, I’m using the paid version of Start Stop Universal Transcription System, available for $99, which is configurable with game port (15 pins), serial port (9 pins), USB, COM port, single pedal, dual pedal or three pedal assembly foot pedals.  It can play audio file formats like .wav, .dss, .vox, .aud, gsm, mp3 etc., and it is fully configurable to automatically load the audio files on the player.  While I’m perfectly satisfied with its performance and using it for the past six years for my home transcription purposes, I thought to do some research on the internet if there are any free audio file players available for transcription which can be used as an alternative for this paid version, and I could find a few of them.  Here are they for your perusal:
Express Scribe

Express Scribe is the most popular free audio player software available on the internet for PC, Mac or Linux designed to assist the transcription of audio recordings.  I think Express Scribe has almost all the functions available with that of Start Stop Universal Transcription System and can be used without any restrictions.

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