[Air-L] Transcription Software

[Christian Nelson]

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 at 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
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: air-l-bounces at listserv.aoir.org
>> [mailto:air-l-bounces at listserv.aoir.org] On Behalf Of laudone at 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 at fordham.edu
>>
>>
>>
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