[Air-L] Recording phone interviews

Sarah Ann Oates soates at umd.edu
Fri Jul 17 07:28:57 PDT 2020


Hi, if you set it up in advance in the settings, Zoom will record your
session AND transcribe it. I did this for accessibility in my Zoom sessions
last semester. The transcription is pretty good, but will need light
editing. You may need an upgrade from free Zoom to get this but I think
probably worth it. I am not sure where you'll be recording but be aware in
some parts of the US (probably elsewhere as well) you need both parties in
the recording to affirm that they agree to be recorded. No doubt that is
part of your informed consent, etc., but just throwing it out there because
a lot of people are unaware of that law in some states (such as Maryland)
in the US. Good luck with the project! Sarah


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On Fri, Jul 17, 2020 at 6:11 AM Zach Bastick <zach.bastick at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi everyone,
>
> Given these times of social distancing, a colleague and I are conducting
> interviews by telephone. We are looking for solutions to record the
> interviews locally (so that we can transcribe them), but also maintain the
> privacy of the interviewees. We have considered various options (from
> conducting the interview over loudspeaker with a recorder next to it, to
> using Google Voice, to using subscription services). We have decided
> against services that ‘join’ the call as a conference call participant and
> send you the recording because we would like to maintain full control over
> the recorded data (again, for ethical reasons). So, we were wondering what
> the experience of the community here has been. Are there any recent and
> reliable tools that people here are using? What have you found to work
> well?
>
> Thanks!
>
> Zach
>
> Dr. Zach Bastick
> Postdoctoral Researcher in Political Science
> European School of Political Science, France
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