[Air-L] interview transcription software

[Kyle F Kubler]

I think Temi quality really depends on audio recording quality. If you had
an internal recorder going with the Zoom interviews that might be okay with
Temi but if you using an external recorder to record the interview coming
off a computer speaker that might be rough. I just had around a dozen
interviews transcribed with Temi and the in-person ones were decent, but
the phone interviews were nearly unintelligible and had to be re-done.
Thankfully Temi rates the quality of the audio recording you give it. So if
it ranks your files highly then go for it, otherwise, probably not worth it.

-Kyle

On Thu, Oct 10, 2019 at 8:39 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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