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ExpressScribe not free anymore? - sm

Posted: Aug 14, 2013

After 2 weeks or so it wants you to buy the Pro version. It has always been FREE!!

I had to change computers and thus had to download it again and now after 6 weeks of multiple downloads, it won't let me set up the foot pedal... says I must buy it

Any ideas out there? Or other freebies that work as well?

If you like ExpressScribe - xx

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Why not just buy it? That way you will get updates and tech support.

Same problem here. New PC, no Express Scribe! - (and also, no MONEY!) :(

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NM

stop being cheap - and just

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buy the dang thing! They have payment options. You skirted along free for many years, but you can't keep getting "free stuff" forever. Pay them their dues and be done with it. There are no other "free" dictation players. It's about time they caught up to all the "freeloaders." We all have to pay, so should you.

And where is the money supposed to come from? - You wanna chip in?

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Costs of doing business - $$$

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If you can't afford to scrape up $29.99 then I guess it's not important enough for you to work.

Really, for those that smoke it's less than a carton of cigarettes. It's the cost of not eating out for a month, or buying a cheap cut of meat for a month, or cutting your electric bill by turning down the air a couple of degrees for a month.

If the job is important, you'd be able to come up with $29.99. JMHO

Is it really only $30? Wow. - I agree--buy it.

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I just checked and it's only 19.99. - Good grief.

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We don't do our work for free, why should we expect others to do so? Pay for the product.

Yeah. If you cannot scrape up $20 - xx

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for a necessary work tool, MT really isn't working out for you. Maybe it's time to rethink your career.

Seriously, why should the developers of ExpressScribe provide it for free? They deserve to be paid for their skills and effort.

Gee, you must be really GOOD. You probably - do 600 lpm & make 60K/year, right?

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Regardless, I'm sure that if Express Scribe no longer has a free version, some other company will come along and provide one for free that will likely work a whole lot better than clunk E.S.

If they so deserve to be paid, then they shouldn't offer it - free the first time around. nm

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nm

show me where it is 19.99 - nm

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All I did was google the product. - sm

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But here's a link for you.

Go to "purchase pro edition."

Express Scribe is the first product on the list and it costs $19.99.

Same Place I have gone and says 29.99 - nm

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Says 19.99 on my screen. - nm.

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I got 29.99 through Chrome and 19.99 through Firefox. - very strange

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I even cleaned my cache in Chrome, and it still showed 29.99 there.

I'm now getting 19.99 only in IE, 29.99 in both Firefox and Chrome.

Moot point to me, I can't stand the way Express Scribe sounds when slowed down or sped up, so I'm going with Transcription Buddy. I had some problems with a couple of MP3s truncating in that (a 50-minute file changing to 47 minutes?), but after I converted them to WAVs with Switch Sound File Converter, they were fine.

Obviously really no perfect player available (and they're all so low quality compared to like the proprietary players in DocQScribe and EditScript, IMO), but Transcription Buddy is the best I've found so far. TheRecord Player is good too (and free), but something got corrupted in that and it stopped working for me, unfortunately. Uninstalled and reinstalled multiple times and just had to give up on it.

Free riding - Nick

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You need to be responsible for buying what you need. No one should expect their equipment and ancillary material to come free. Come on. Twenty bucks should not be that hard to come by.

Free Riding - who are you to tell any of us what we "need" to do - Ugh!

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Free equipment has been around for years and it is a marketing strategy. It is very common with FTP and cloud servers right now, just like Express Scribe was for years.

Yup. Most of the software on my PC I got - for free. As well as all my music!

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You must not be an MT, or you'd know how - hard $20 is to come by.

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I love how all these lovely so-called MTs gang up and go for the jugular as soon as someone admits they're having a hard time making a living at this anymore.

I guess what they say is true. We really ARE all descended from killer apes.

That's such a lame excuse - sm

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Do you have a cell phone, cable TV? Eat fast food? Buy pop? Betcha do. If you can afford those, then you can pay $20 for ES.

Nope. Land line only. No cableTV. Fast food? Ugh! - Pop is fattening; I drink water or tea.

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yeah....right... - blowing smoke.

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I smell lies.

No, not hard to come by at all, if all of you bullies - chip in and send her a buck apiece. nm

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nm

okay - here is

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my portion.... $1.

nobody gave me free stuff when I was in need, including money, food, a place to stay, or whatever. just paying it forward.

I've got 2 different versions and would gladly share with OP - if she contacts me by email. sm

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I have the simple versions, never paid for them, downloaded several years ago and I never get requests to buy a full version.

Yes, most MT jobs these days make barely enough to get by unless you're lucky enough to have the same dictators over and over again, memorized what they say, and use all macros - when you have work.

even if you - share

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with the OP, I doubt that it will work once it is loaded on her computer. Those types of programs are usually coded somehow and only work on the computer it was downloaded to. but good luck.

FYI -- that's software piracy and that's illegal - nm

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nm

CEOs of that company are rich. I'm sure they - wont miss one copy of Express Scribe.

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If they're anything like the rest of the 1%, they probably use $20 bills for toilet paper. My heart doesn't bleed for them one iota.

Using your logic - xx

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you shouldn't ever pay for anything ever at all. Just find a successful person or company who makes what you want and steal it. After all, you're entitled to what they worked for and earned, aren't you? Why should you have to expend any effort when you can just join the rest of the welfare rats and steal what others have earned.

You had money to buy a new PC - xx

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Next to the cost of a new computer, the $20 ExpressScribe costs is peanuts. You didn't expect to get the PC for free (or did you?). ExpressScribe is another tool, just like the PC is a tool.

Remember, any costs you incur related to your job, even parts of your electric/cable - Can.Be.Written.Off.Taxes

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x

Got it rebuilt, discounted. Still took every - penny I had in savings.

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I can get by without E.S., it was just nice to have for those cash-only sideline jobs. You know... the ones we all do to fill in the hours each day we sit with NJA on our screens from our full-time jobs.

No Express Scribe - Old Pro

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You know that old saying, You have to spend money to make money? Well, it's true. You need to invest in what you need. And it is a tax deduction anyway.

Wow, tough crowd - OldMt

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Express Scribe was free for years and nobody was a freeloader. It is how NCH promoted their products. You were offered Express Scribe for free and that gave them exposure for referrals and sales of other products. I believe the original few posts were just commenting on their surprise, not trying to be cheap. Whew, some of you really see the dark side, don't you?

Agree! Nobody ask a question from this crabby crowd! - Yikes

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To the OP, I know what you're saying--I was surprised and disappointed to discover it was no longer free, too. I'm finding I have fewer dollars to spend these days.

Every once in a while, I find awesome support here, but it's always smashed by a bunch of nasties who can't even fake being courteous. No wonder they work isolated and at home! Really, my first boss told me that most transcriptionists had personality deficits, so maybe she was right?

I, for one, am getting out of this nightmare.

I wish you luck as you struggle to shoulder more and more of the cost of working and receive less and less of the pie.

Use your head. Most of us don't have excess cash flow - at any given time. SM

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and have to watch our money closely from week to week. I've been in that boat many time, as are many others.

She obviously doesn't have money to spare right now, unlike some of YOU who sound like you've got it to burn.

If you are living that close to the edge - xx

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maybe you need to make some changes. If whatever you're doing isn't providing you with a decent living, find something that will. Staying put and playing the victim will just bring more of the same. Take some action, get some training, get out and talk to people, find something better. Do something. Don't just hide behind "I can't" or "I won't" or "You don't understand." Do something. Stop blaming, start doing.

Express Scribe - Mina

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Use and older version!! 4.3 is free. However, some of the newer versions allow video so you can transcribe, for example, court reports and actually see who is talking. I don't need all those bells and whistles, so I went back to the older version that I know works for me and all audio types

Email me if you want ExpressScribe nm - Hiya007

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Hopefully the "unhelpful" crabby people will not ask for it. Whatever happened to helping people out?

gone with - the wind

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nobody "helps anybody out" these days, at least not for "free." It has become a privileged society of "entitlement" mindset... one for me and all for me. gimmee, gimmee, gimmee. and I do not care if ES used to be "free" or not, it no longer is, and probably because the company is taking financial hits due to the downturn of this industry, as well as the rest of us. I don't think the OPs original post was a post of "surprise," she just wanted to not have to pay for something... and yes, I do know it is not easy to have to scrape up another $20 you don't have, but if you want to work still in this industry, you find a way to make it work. I recently was offered a job at a company that only used a certain type of dictation software and if I wanted the job, I was "required" to have it. Many companies have requirements to do their work... C phones, only certain versions of Word, Spellcheck, FTP, etc and if you want to work, you get them. As another poster said, if you can afford a new computer, you can afford $20 to continue doing your job. You should have thought things through as far as the programs you need to use to do your job prior to buying one. I don't care if it was "reconditioned, discounted," or what...it was still an expense and I am sure that will be written off on taxes at the end of the year, so what's another $20? And we are not crabby people, we are just tired of some others wanting and "expecting" stuff for free!

See inside - sm

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Post regarding an older version: http://forum.mtstars.com/494925.html

And here's a VirusTotal scan I just did of that download, to be extra safe (no hidden malware/virsuses, in other words): https://www.virustotal.com/en/file/c6042eafbc165f1771c05f168a19382199c6b9c1dbd616e977c8e37eed5309a2/analysis/1376575451/

There's also this free player: http://community.fortherecord.com/index.php?/page/playerdownload

For the Record - nn

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I have downloaded the player and provided detaileld instructions as to how to load files to it. It is free and works with almost every file type. It is also 4 channel capability, so if you get into general/legal transcription at some point, it works great for that too. I have also found that the rewind setting on this is much better than on ES.

Express Scribe - Mina

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Use an older version, such as 4.3, search the internet.....

Mina is right - me

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There are still free versions out there. It takes some searching but you can find an active download link to an older free version.

Express Scribe - mt49

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I just checked and it's still possible to get Express Scribe free. Just typed Express Scribe in Bing and there it is.

Express Scribe - Minda

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version 4.35......free! Works like a charm, handles most voice file types. I have the exe file...if you want it send me your email address and I will send it to you. The newer version are asking you for money and don't work nearly the same and don't tolerate some of the voice files like before. However, it does provide audio/video. Who needs support? It works without a problem. I don't need to pay extra for a new program with tech support.

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