[Air-L] interview transcription software

[Tim Laquintano]

Hi All,

I hope you had a wonderful time in Australia. Sorry to have missed it.

I am beginning a round of about 90 interviews, most of which I will do
using video-conferencing software Zoom (low background noise and decent
audio quality). Last time I did this five years ago, I paid Rev to do the
bulk of the transcription.

Now, I am wondering if voice-to-text transcription software has become good
enough to produce  transcriptions of one-on-one interviews. I've been
surfing and seeing services like Temi or wreally, and I am wondering if any
of you have had success (or failures) with this kind of software. I am not
doing any sort of hyper-close linguistic analysis, so I don't need the
transcripts to be absolutely perfect. Software would save a lot of money,
but I also don't want to waste time if the results are going to be too
shoddy to use. Thoughts? Preferred software?

Thank you in advance.

Tim Laquintano
Associate Professor of English
Lafayette College