[Air-L] interview transcription software

[Melike Findikoglu]

Hi all, I suggest Otter. I am using it actively, it produces the
transcription, of course it depends on the speaker, the dialect or accent.
https://otter.ai/

On Thu, Oct 10, 2019 at 7:13 PM Kyle F Kubler <kubler at uw.edu> wrote:

> 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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