At 05:33 PM 7/18/02 +0100, you wrote:
>I'm new to qualitative research, but from reading previous postings it
>looks like one way to turn the files into text is to buy voice recognition
>software and speak the recorded interviews in. My question is if I want to
>use a CAQDAS program for analysis, do I then have to go back through and
>reformat the whole thing to meet the protocols of the CAQDAS program. If
>so would uploading the digital file and then using a transcription software
>to listen and type be faster?
I can only speak for the first method, which I use. Yes, you will have to
go back and reformat the text files, but this is not difficult. The output
of the voice recognition software is a standard text or RTF file that can
be imported directly into the CAQDAS program. You can even use the voice
recognition software to add headers, annotations, line breaks, or whatever
you need.
Elliot Richmond
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