[Air-L] interview transcription software

Tim Laquintano tlaquintano at gmail.com
Sun Oct 13 05:58:07 PDT 2019 

Thank you all for the really helpful suggestions. Looks like it helps to
plan your audio quality around the service.

Much appreciated.

Tim

On Sun, Oct 13, 2019 at 8:12 AM Jill Walker Rettberg <
Jill.Walker.Rettberg at uib.no> wrote:

> We’ve been using otter.ai for recording and automatically transcribing
> project meetings when we want to remember what we discussed and why we made
> certain decisions. It’s almost perfect for US English, OK for other native
> English-speaking accents and useable for fluent non-native English
> speakers. It struggles a lot when more than one person speaks at once
> (which we get a lot of) but with a one on one interview it’s probably fine.
>
> I find that even with the many mistakes it’s very much worthwhile. It’s
> useful going through the transcript after the meeting, and since it
> separates by speaker and lets you listen to the voice recording while
> looking at and editing the transcript it’s really easy to find the
> interesting bits and quickly edit the transcript. It also automatically
> assigns tags (frequently used words) to each transcript.
>
> You may want to consider privacy for your interviewees, though. Otter and
> other A.I. transcriptions services obviously store the voices and use this
> for training the AI. So you are giving a commercial company an increased
> ability to understand and identify each voice you feed it. In Norway, I
> think a voice recording is classified as personally identifiable
> information in privacy legislation, so you’d need to think carefully about
> sending research data to a third party in another country.
>
> If there are any AI transcription services that work on a local computer
> and not on the cloud I would love to know about them!
>
> Jill
>
>
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> Sent: Friday, October 11, 2019 1:57 AM
> To: Yosem Companys
> Cc: air-l at listserv.aoir.org
> Subject: Re: [Air-L] interview transcription software
>
> I use https://webcaptioner.com/ on my livestreams. It uses the Google
> Translate API and is free,
>
>
>
> On Thu, Oct 10, 2019 at 5:16 PM Yosem Companys <ycompanys at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> > Not transcription-specific but may be of interest to you:
> >
> > https://www.descript.com/
> >
> > On Thu, Oct 10, 2019 at 1:36 PM Dawn Gilpin <dgilpin at asu.edu> wrote:
> >
> > > I have also had good results with Trint.
> > >
> > > _______________________________________
> > > Dr. Dawn R. Gilpin
> > > Associate Honors Professor
> > > Walter Cronkite School of Journalism & Mass Communication
> > > Faculty affiliate, Lincoln Center for Applied Ethics
> > > Arizona State University
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> > >
> > > On 10/10/19, 1:30 PM, "Air-L on behalf of Kolina S Koltai" <
> > > air-l-bounces at listserv.aoir.org on behalf of koltai at utexas.edu> wrote:
> > >
> > > I found Trint.com to work pretty well.
> > >
> >
> https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__trint.com_&d=DwICAg&c=l45AxH-kUV29SRQusp9vYR0n1GycN4_2jInuKy6zbqQ&r=V4PbopfQT72ouch570Jq6omHTuXTEus0mbSVr4gEiPw&m=VDzMT3qcnMgQwh43I6wAv-Y_Yh-m295IHD-Uigpk-m0&s=tMG6UX97cPlCRLlovJh_6nakqd17stUen_p489WRGbM&e=
> > >
> > > 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://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__otter.ai_&d=DwICAg&c=l45AxH-kUV29SRQusp9vYR0n1GycN4_2jInuKy6zbqQ&r=V4PbopfQT72ouch570Jq6omHTuXTEus0mbSVr4gEiPw&m=VDzMT3qcnMgQwh43I6wAv-Y_Yh-m295IHD-Uigpk-m0&s=iC7XNWEJjT20zh0mZAnJ_3h9EQOqLhbHhUoPpvZagUM&e=
> > > >
> > > > 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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