[Air-l] transcribing digital interviews

[Mark Warschauer]

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 at uci.edu