Yes, this seems to be a perennial question for AIR-L. And the answer has thus far remained the same: automatic transcription just isn't there yet. If you see some of the transcriptions offered by YouTube, you'll know why. If you are only looking for automatic tagging of keywords, there are tools and services available to do this, with the better ones getting quite expensive, but for accurate transcriptions, humans are still needed. I haven't used Mechanical Turk for transcription, but I'd be interested to know if anyone on the list has... For reference: http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~mrmarge/icassp10margem.pdf http://waxy.org/2008/09/audio_transcription_with_mechanical_turk/ http://chronicle.com/blogs/profhacker/the-reliability-efficiencyaffordabilit... http://castingwords.com/ (They seem to use MTurk, but wrap it for customers.) Best, Alex On Fri, Jun 24, 2011 at 1:09 PM, <jhuns@vt.edu> wrote:
I think many people are looking and have been looking for this holy grail. Â What most people have done when they have a good deal of data is hire a transcription service to do it for them _______________________________________________ The Air-L@listserv.aoir.org mailing list is provided by the Association of Internet Researchers http://aoir.org Subscribe, change options or unsubscribe at: http://listserv.aoir.org/listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org
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