[Air-L] interview transcription software

[Kolina S Koltai]

I found Trint.com to work pretty well. https://trint.com/

Sent from my phone. Please forgive any typos and short length.

On Thu, Oct 10, 2019, 1:25 PM Melike Findikoglu <melike.findikoglu at gmail.com>
wrote:

> 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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