Epoxy is listed here as shareware, but it appears that it has been released as freeware, and the author seeks developers--French speaking REALBASIC programmers who are using Windows or Linux (!)--to participate, so in some sense it appears to be open source.
I tried the free Express Scribe program, and it basically did what it aims to do. However, in the recording I used to test it, the volume was so low it was hard to hear (it was recorded using the built-in mic on an mp3 player). However, there is no "amplify" function in Express Scribe that I could find, so I had to resort to an external program to amplify the waveform before I was able to transcribe it.
Still, I liked the program, and of course the price is right.
Based on the 5.0b4 demo: (1) the 1st alleged Fr-En translation is actually Portuguese-French(!); (2) the format doesn't allow connections between different forms of the same word (e.g., "ĂȘtre" & "est"); (3) the dictionary is filled with seemingly random two-word combinations, including ungrammatical and implausible ones (e.g., "commune petit", "commune peur", and "commune y").
If the full version of WTX has those kinds of perversities, then it is worthless, but perhaps it just has a very bad demo.
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EPOXY
Greg Shenaut
Express Scribe
Still, I liked the program, and of course the price is right.
Greg Shenaut
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DockDisabler
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Word Translator
Gshenaut reviewed on 13 Sep 2004
If the full version of WTX has those kinds of perversities, then it is worthless, but perhaps it just has a very bad demo.