Hi Martyn,
I recently began my dissertation research, and had also wondered about
"automatic" transcription. Unfortunately, what I learned is that all the
available voice recognition systems for transcribing are still way too
primitive to handle this kind of task. First, the programs all require
rather extensive "training" to recognize and decode your voice, and you have
to spend considerable time with each transcript cleaning up errors. Second,
the available software does not have the ability to work with multiple
voices, at least not well enough to make them worth the investment.
I not only researched the available voice recognition packages, but I also
spoke with a few techie people, one of whom used to work for a voice
recognition software company. They told me the same thing. Unfortunately
(and surprisingly), the technology just is not yet up to snuff for this kind
of work.
I ended up buying a very high quality hand-held tape recorder, hiring a
transcriptionist, and doing it this "old-fashioned" way. Some people just
do all their coding from audio, but I find this too difficult. I need the
visual, and in addition, to derive good quotes for your written report(s)
you end up having to transcribe anyway.
Sorry I don't have more encouraging experience to report. If you find some
software that is capable of this kind of transcription, please write the
list and let everyone know.
Good luck,
Kim Sumner Mayer, M.A., PhD cand., Marriage & Family Therapy, Syracuse
University
Warwick, NY
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From: "Martyn Chamberlain" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Wednesday, August 29, 2001 6:42 AM
Subject: qualitative analysis & visiual/audio data
> Dear all,
>
> I have just discovered the wonders of MP players. I cannot get over their
> being no diskette, but also I can apparently download my MP "transcipts"
> into my computer from my MP player and so include live interview
recordings
> in NVIVO! Does anybody have more information (i.e. can you transcibe
> automatically from mp using software such as Dragon once it is in the
> computer in readyness for entry into NVIVO or similar?) & expereince using
> auido & visual data in NVIVO/similar packages in their data analysis? If
so,
> as a new comer to computer assisted qualitative data analysis, I would
> welcome any advice, guidance, references (including online resources) that
> anyone is willing to offer.
>
> Martin Chamberlain
> Final year MBChB reflective portfolio learning development project manager
> The University of Liverpool Medical Faculty.
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> (0151)7945667
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