Transcription need not include loss of information about paralinguistics and nonverbal behaviors. Conversation analytic transcription procedures include transcription of such things. Moreover, there is no way to study such things systematically without transcribing them. Transcribing such details is greatly facilitated by software like Transana, which used to be free and is still fairly cheap in comparison with similar programs. Besides facilitating the transcription of verbal and nonverbal, it also facilitates the systematic analysis of features of talk through audio and video unitizing and coding. I think the rather ironically named MacVisSTA software might do the same for free (for Mac users). You can learn about these via a Google search. Folks on the Languse list might have more up-to-date information. BTW, I've heard of transcription services that advertise on the net, but I'm not sure of the cost. As for Dragon, what Sue said sounds similar to my experience and what I've heard from others. --Christian Nelson On Jan 27, 2009, at 3:52 PM, Mark Chen wrote:
Hi all,
Just a thought, but depending on the kind of analysis you want to do, transcribing might not even be necessary, as you might lose intonation and different registers and such of speech... If you are also doing videotaping, transcribing might leave out all the gestural, interactional stuff you'd want to analyze.
If the purpose is to have snippets of data that you can present or publish, then you can selectively transcribe the bits you need (or cut video, etc.)...
mark
On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 12:10 PM, Sue Cranmer <sue@jcranmer.freeserve.co.uk>wrote:
Hello Stephanie
Good luck with your PhD. Unfortunately (and I wish this were otherwise), I doubt that Dragon will help you with transcribing qualitative interviews. I've used it for several years (now using 9.5 though 10 has been released), I have never had any success with getting it to transcribe interviews for me. The reason is that although the newer versions don't need so much voice training as earlier versions, the trick when using Dragon is to speak in phrases so that it can pick up the sense of each word. Also, you need to verbalise punctuation. I have carried out some transcribing of audio data with it, but it has involved listening to a recording and then speaking each word into a microphone. Hopefully this helps although it's probably not what you want to hear.
Best Wishes
Sue
This text was dictated using Speech Recognition software. Apologies for any mistakes left uncorrected.
Dr Sue Cranmer
Researcher
Department of Education
University of Oxford
15 Norham Gardens
Oxford OX2 6PY
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Hi all,
I am in the beginning stages of my dissertation research, which involves in-depth qualitative interviews and am looking into transcription software packages (such as Dragon). I am aiming to have about 50-75 interviews, so transcribing them myself isn't the best option for me. I haven't heard too much about the software however. Does anyone have experience with this? Any insight is greatly appreciated!
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