There was a discussion of this sort of stuff a few months ago when I was
asking some of the same questions. So you might try looking through the
list archives to see what other suggestions there were. There's certainly
some suggestions on moving analogue data from tapes on to your hard drive.
One way to make use of voice recognition software would be to shadow
whatever is on tape yourself. This would be faster than typing it, and
your software would only have to be trained to recognize your voice. I
don't know how reliable this method is, but psychologists have been
teaching participants to shadow auditory text for years, so that part of
it can't be too hard.
Admittedly I am doing it the old fashioned way, 'cept I have to do most of
my transcription myself...
Nick
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Yesterday 10:44pm, Kim wrote:
> 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
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Martyn Chamberlain" <[log in to unmask]>
> To: <[log in to unmask]>
> 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.
> > [log in to unmask]
> > (0151)7945667
> >
>
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