I've always recorded interviews on analogue microcassettes, and then used transcribing machines to facilitate transcription process. The use of footpedals to advance or reverse the tape combined with an automatic mini-rewind every time the tape starts makes transcribing much easier. I've been thinking of starting to instead use a digital recorder, but I can't figure out how I'd do the transcribing of interviews. I'm not even talking about automatic transcription, since as far as I know there is no speech-to-text software that can work without being trained (so it wouldn't work for interviews). But even for manual transcribing, I'm not aware of any transcribing machine--or alternate software program plus foot pedal, for example--that can be used with digital recordings. Does anybody out there record their interviews digitally? And, if so, how do you transcribe them? Thanks-- Mark -- Mark Warschauer Vice Chair, Department of Education Associate Professor, Dept. of Education & Dept. of Informatics University of California, Irvine 2001 Berkeley Place, Irvine, CA 92697 tel: 949 824-2526, fax: 949 824-2965 http://www.gse.uci.edu/markw, markw@uci.edu