Hi Stephanie: Here is what was suggested to me and has been the most useful software (free!) I've found - ExpressScribe. You can download it from the web, it's totally legal shareware, for free. They sell basically the footpedals and equipment parts that go with it to businesses. I've been using it to transcribe interviews and field sessions for years now, and it's been invaluable - you can speed up and slow down your recording, once you upload it into the software, and it tracks your recording to the second. You can also restart from exactly where you left off when you stop transcribing for a day, which has also been invaluable. The catch is you need digitized recordings, but somehow I doubt that's an issue in this community :) Hope this is helpful! Meryl Krieger Ph.D. Folklore & Ethnomusicology Associate Instructor, Indiana University Adjunct Instructor, Ivy Tech Community College kriegerj@indiana.edu
-----Original Message----- From: air-l-bounces@listserv.aoir.org [mailto:air-l-bounces@listserv.aoir.org] On Behalf Of laudone@fordham.edu Sent: Monday, 26 January 2009 20:23 To: air-l Subject: [Air-L] Transcription Software
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!
Many thanks, Stephanie Laudone _______________________ Stephanie Laudone, MA PhD Student, Teaching Associate Dept. of Sociology Fordham University Laudone@fordham.edu
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