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
hi stephanie i used atlas-ti for my thesis. the advantage of this software is that it also works with other media than text and different researchers can easily collaborate using the same data. just to name a few advantages. and if you can use the student version it has a reasonable price! best dominik
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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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 -----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 _______________________________________________ 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 Join the Association of Internet Researchers: http://www.aoir.org/ No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG. Version: 7.5.552 / Virus Database: 270.10.14/1918 - Release Date: 27/01/2009 07:26 No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG. Version: 7.5.552 / Virus Database: 270.10.14/1918 - Release Date: 27/01/2009 07:26
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!
Many thanks, Stephanie Laudone _______________________ Stephanie Laudone, MA PhD Student, Teaching Associate Dept. of Sociology Fordham University Laudone@fordham.edu
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I've been told that 'transcription' is actually easily done using mechanical turk. You just have to make sure that you stipulate that in your IRB or other ethical considerations. however, the holy grail of automatic transcription via dragon or other tool has not yet been found :( Jeremy Hunsinger Political Science Center for Digital Discourse and Culture Virginia Tech Information Ethics Fellow Center for Information Policy Research () ascii ribbon campaign - against html mail /\ - against microsoft attachments http://wiki.tmttlt.com http://www.tmttlt.com You cannot depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus. --Mark Twain
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!
Many thanks, Stephanie Laudone _______________________ Stephanie Laudone, MA PhD Student, Teaching Associate Dept. of Sociology Fordham University Laudone@fordham.edu
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Please remove my email from the list. Thank you. DR (PhD) MORDECHAI GAD-EL NASSI nassi4@bezeqint.net -----Original Message----- From: air-l-bounces@listserv.aoir.org [mailto:air-l-bounces@listserv.aoir.org] On Behalf Of Sue Cranmer Sent: Tuesday, January 27, 2009 10:10 PM To: air-l@listserv.aoir.org Subject: Re: [Air-L] Transcription Software 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 -----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 _______________________________________________ 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 Join the Association of Internet Researchers: http://www.aoir.org/ No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG. Version: 7.5.552 / Virus Database: 270.10.14/1918 - Release Date: 27/01/2009 07:26 No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG. Version: 7.5.552 / Virus Database: 270.10.14/1918 - Release Date: 27/01/2009 07:26 _______________________________________________ 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 Join the Association of Internet Researchers: http://www.aoir.org/
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
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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!
Many thanks, Stephanie Laudone _______________________ Stephanie Laudone, MA PhD Student, Teaching Associate Dept. of Sociology Fordham University Laudone@fordham.edu
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Yes, ExpressScribe is great! I have the foot pedal unit (and several years medical transcription experience), so that was what I always used, and still keep as a backup. However, due to physical issues (RA), I have to baby my hands a lot more than in the past, so I'm looking for a more "hands off" way to do it. For my dissertation, I'm planning on doing mostly video capture, and not so much transcription, but I do have some Skype interviews that I want to transcribe to be able to mark up and take quotes from, so I'll likely do the "listen - repeat to Dragon" method and see how it goes. Suellen Rader Regonini, M.Ed. Ph.D. Student, Applied Anthropology University of South Florida sregonin@cas.usf.edu -----Original Message----- From: air-l-bounces@listserv.aoir.org on behalf of Meryl Krieger Sent: Tue 1/27/2009 5:46 PM To: air-l@listserv.aoir.org Subject: Re: [Air-L] Transcription Software 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
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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!
Many thanks, Stephanie Laudone _______________________ Stephanie Laudone, MA PhD Student, Teaching Associate Dept. of Sociology Fordham University Laudone@fordham.edu
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