Hi all
Päivi Rissanen from Kajaani (Finland) told me that Philips has a solution
for transcribing. The program is called Philips FreeSpeech Viva. She even
had run some workshops for those interested in using it.
FreeSpeech Viva is sold by Konttorityö in Finland:
http://www.konttorityo.fi/FS_viva.html, but I couldn't find a reference to
it in Philips' international pages.
Päivi told that it works (even with Finnish), but the issue with the program
is that it learns to recognize the voice of only one person.
I contacted earlier this year the selling company in Finland and asked about
the program's use in transcribing interviews. The answer was - surprisingly
- that it doesn't work.
As far as I know, the program, however, translates audio data to text, if
you, instead of transcribing the text manually, read the interview data anew
to the microphone and use the program installed in the computer.
If somebody's interested, I have the Päivi's contact information.
Regards
Pentti Luoma
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Aihe: Transcription software
I'm trying to choose between Transana and Transcriber to recommend to our
student for transcription (and maybe analysis) of audio recordings of
interviews. I cannot find any comparisons of the programs. Both seem to be
alive and widely used (Transana discussion board makes it look more alive).
I came to terms with Transcriber faster than with Transana.
So far we have been an Atlas/Ti shop. Many of the transcripts produced will
be exported to Atlas, so the ease and extent of exportation is an issue for
us. On the other hand, both programs seem to provide for the analysis
(coding., annotation,
search&retrieve,...) needs also, and some of us are dreaming of working on
the audio-material directly instead of transcribing everything, so a
comparison of these features would also be welcome.
-Timo Harmo, Faculty of Social Sciences, U of Helsinki
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