Hello Isabel, You can find interesting information here: In French : http://www.elda.org/fr/proj/euromap/directory.php In English : http://www.elda.org/en/proj/euromap/ This is a directory of Human Langage Technologies and tools in France I have made when I wad at ELDA. Regards, Emilie Marquois-Ogez Le 3 mars 06 à 14:11, Isabel Alvarez a écrit :

I would like to have any information concerning transcription software. I know the existence of DRAGON professional, but I haven't use it. Any thoughts? Thank you so much. Isabel

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Isabel, There is a wikipedia entry dedicated to Dragon Naturally Speaking: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dragon_Naturally_Speaking which was mostly created by people from the lively Dragon web forum Knowbrainer, at http://forum.knowbrainer.com/list.php?f=2 You find another forum at http://www.voicerecognition.com/board/index.php?automodule=blog The wikipedia entry gives some further links.Wikipedia and the voicerecognition form both list link to several blogs. I bought DNS 8 Preferred and use it now and then. But maybe my pronunciation is too outlandish - I think the quality of the recognition could be better. Before buying it 2 years ago I searched on the Internet about voice recognition and found DNS as the one that got the best results in program comparisons. ViaVoice is far less expensive but less well recommended, the Windows XP inbuilt speech recognition a nuisance that only takes memory resources. So, the choice was simple. DNS is now sold by Nuance, www.nuance.com. Good dictating ! F. Thomas Isabel Alvarez wrote:

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I should've mentioned that which transcription software is best depends on what you are doing. If you are transcribing your own voice, then DragonNS might be OK. But if you are transcribing another person's talk, or that of a whole group, the utility of DragonNS becomes questionable at best, because Dragon must be trained to the voice(s) it is transcribing before it can be used, and it is rarely the case that you can get someone other than yourself to take the time to complete the initial training, much less stick around to make corrections during the transcription process. So, if you want to automate transcription of other people's talk, you usually have to recreate other people's talk in your own voice (i.e., listen to what they say through headphones and then repeat it into the microphone of another recording device), and then train the software to your voice. And then you have to contend with the fact that, though Dragon is probably the best voice recognition software out there, it's not very good even on a single voice. I found that you have to talk very slowly, at an unnaturally steady pace to get it to work at all, and even then I had a lot of corrections to make. Just transcribing on my own was at least as fast if not faster. From the forums I looked at a couple years ago, it seemed like my experience was typical, and it seemed that most of the folks who used DragonNS, ViaVoice, etc. were folks who couldn't manipulate a keyboard or folks like lawyers and salespeople who used it to transcribe brief memos they recorded while in the car or hunched over documents. I should also mention that an alternative to transcribing on your own is paying a service to do so. I think that standard rates for this, and related topics have been discussed on either the qualsoft list or the languse email lists, both of which are good resources for questions about transcription. Of course, if you have someone else transcribe, you'll still have to review the transcription for accuracy to the recordings, etc. Finally, here are a couple sites with a lot of language analysis (including transcription) software. descriptions and reviews: http://www.qualitativeresearch.uga.edu/QualPage/qda.html http://www.textanalysis.info/ Best, Christian Nelson On Mar 3, 2006, at 8:11 AM, Isabel Alvarez wrote:

I would like to have any information concerning transcription software. I know the existence of DRAGON professional, but I haven't use it. Any thoughts? Thank you so much. Isabel

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Has the board considered a rotational schedule where the conference would be held in the U.S. every other year? This is a practice that other associations use and one that benefits conference planners and members alike. I'm one of those people who is already looking at the 2007 and 2008 conference schedules to see what is being offered in anticipation of writing papers and making presentations. I imagine there are others reading this posting who are doing the same

Yes, we currently have a rotation schedule alternating North America with not-North America. The hope last time rotation was discussed in the previous executive (under my presidency) was that if Brisbane goes well, we might eventually be on a rotation schedule that would include the Pacific Rim/Asia, as there is a good deal of internet research going on not just in Australia, but in Korea, China, Japan and other Asian countries as well. The idea of Mexico and Latin America as meeting places has also been discussed and the concerns Suely raises are pretty much those that we considered -- that we don't have a Latin American or Mexican base yet (if you're there, please tell the internet scholars you know!) and that a conference there might well turn into a tourist get-away rather than a paper-attending event that brings in regional scholars. I think everyone on the executive committee hopes that we will expand conferences to other parts of the world eventually. All those of us involved in founding and running AoIR have hoped from the start to be a true international association (though some of us may have underestimated some of the difficult balancing acts this would entail and some of the perceptual issues we would have to manage -- plus of course we didn't foresee 9/11 turning the US into a problematic place to have a conference). One thing to keep in mind is that these conferences cost a lot of money to put on and as a young association with minimal membership fees and comparatively low conference fees (though of course, some think they're too high anyway) we are really not in a position to take financial risks on our conferences lest we bankrupt the association in one event (we are not talking about profits here!). I am really delighted to see so many people engaged in this discussion, though, and to hear some of you stepping up offering to help plan. That's what makes this association possible, Nancy