[Air-L] interview transcription software

[David Wolinsky]

Hi Tim!

Yes - I would recommend Temi, which is Rev's AI-assisted transcribing
platform: https://temi.com <https://www.temi.com/>

This recommendation comes from a journalist who has had the unfortunate
pleasure of dealing with transcripts for ~15 years. But Temi should work
great (you used to be able to get your first order free to try, but I think
now it's restricted to a specific amount of time you can get done free
first). There are others that might work even better depending on the topic
- there are other AI-assisted transcribing platforms that do better with
pop culture v. more technical stuff.

Also, it's super-super fast. Yesterday I did a 45-minute interview and
within 3 minutes of uploading it was completed and available... I started
using it last year and have never looked back.

On Thu, Oct 10, 2019 at 10:39 AM Tim Laquintano <tlaquintano at gmail.com>
wrote:

> 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
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