Re: foot pedal for transcriptions?
Jeff Jensen <[email protected]>
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Kinesis sells a 1 foot model [0] and a 3 foot pedal model [1] that *might* work for your setup but of course were made for their KBs. [0] https://kinesis-ergo.com/shop/advantage-single-pedal/ [1] https://kinesis-ergo.com/shop/advantage-triple-pedal/ On Sun, Mar 28, 2021 at 12:30 PM Clark Andreasen <[email protected]> wrote: > If you're willing to DIY it, some types of Arduino can act as a USB HID > and emulate any keystrokes you want (officially, the pro micro iirc, but > modern Nano's can be hacked to do so as well since they have a > reprogrammable USB chip). > > You could even buy a commercial foot pedal you like and just replace the > brains with an Arduino. It would be a bit of a project but easily doable if > you have the requisite electronics background, or are willing to learn on > the fly. > > On Fri, Mar 26, 2021, 14:33 Mike Miller <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Have any of you used something like this? I'm interested in doing >> transcriptions -- sometimes spoken language, sometimes music -- and I >> need >> to be able to jump back a second or two, repeat, etc. Basically, what I >> want is to be able to do a few typical VLC shortcuts by pressing >> something >> with my foot. >> >> USB Foot Pedal for Computer Transcription >> >> https://www.amazon.com/Infinity-USB-1-Computer-Transcription-Pedal/dp/B008EA1K66 >> >> I thought this had the right idea... >> >> Vidami YouTube Hands Free Video Controller >> >> https://www.amazon.com/Vidami-YouTube-Hands-Video-Controller/dp/B08NXV8Q9Y/ >> >> ...but it's made for YouTube videos and the price is about double what I >> would have expected. >> >> I want something that will work with VLC and Linux. >> >> Mike >> _______________________________________________ >> TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota >> [email protected] >> http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list >> > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > [email protected] > http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list > _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota [email protected] http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list