[Air-L] out of luck re transcription?

[T. Kennedy]

We used Express Scribe - Meryl already mentioned it - and it works great.
I'm not aware of any programs that transcribe direct successfully.
I have to agree with Denise, it's certainly part of the process (as painful
and tedious as it is) - and you get much closer to your data (and
importantly, the participants). Having said that, 50-75 interviews is a huge
undertaking for a single grad student (who is not part of a research group)
- even for a phd.
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Tracy L. M. Kennedy
PhD Candidate
Dept of Sociology
University of Toronto

Course Instructor
Dept of Communications, Popular Culture & Film 
Brock University

Research Coordinator
NetLab
University of Toronto

Second Life: Professor Tracy

-----Original Message-----
From: Barry Wellman [mailto:wellman at chass.utoronto.ca] 
Sent: January 27, 2009 4:14 PM
To: aoir list
Cc: Tracy Kennedy
Subject: out of luck re transcription?

We've never found a transcription program that will work with interviews.
That's because you need to train the program for each voice, and while the
interviewers are trainable [;-)], each respondent isn't. Hard enuf to get
a resp. to hold still to be interviewed.

We have had good luck with transcription software, for going from voice
recording to interviews. Tracy, what did we use last?

 Barry Wellman