Alan,
your description of the software sounds interesting. Where is CISAID
available and how expensive is it? Which voice recognition software do you
use?
Regards
Silvia Rief
--On 01 February 2000, 09:28 +0000 "Alan Cartwright"
<[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> An injury to my arms led me to start using IBM most recent
> voice-recognition software as a means of inputting all my text. And I must
> admit to being very impressed. I can certainly produce text much more
> quickly than I can type, particularly with my damaged arms. The training
> period was quite quick but it is now only after a month of using that the
> real power of the programme is becoming apparent.
>
> I have been using this to complete the help files for my new programme
> CISAID (Code-A-Text Integrated System for the Analysis of Interviews and
> Dialogues). One of the features of CISAID is that it allows text to be
> input as if typing into a word processor. There are a variety of different
> methods for coding and analysing the data. One feature is a transcription
> system which works either via the mouse or the keyboard. It has all the
> features of a normal transcription system including the ability to slow
> down speech, insert periods of silence and control volume.
>
> I have been using this system in conjunction with voice recognition
> software and I am impressed by the potential. Having copied my media file
> on to the computer I can click on one button to play the media File stop
it
> and then dictate what has been said directly into the CISAID Text window.
> In fact it should be possible to transcribe a complete interview without
> touching the keyboard.
>
> One of the problems with voice-recognition software has always been that
> many para verbal sounds cannot be reproduced. However the use of voice
> macros, which allow you to associate a specific piece at text with a
sound,
> can allow you to insert para verbal utterances by dictation. (It
> incidentally also allows the insertion of a annotation codes which are
> embedded in the text by CISAID. These alongside the open-ended comments
can
> be inserted via the voice-recognition software. CISAID keeps two forms of
> index one of the words in the text and another of the comments and
> annotations; meaning that you can search along these three dimensions as
> well as on Rating Scales.)
>
>
> The system is not perfect but certainly I would expect it to eventually
> reduce the transcription time for me by at least 50 per cent and for a
> slower typist much more. However, there is always a downside and in this
> case it is machine specification-I already have 256 megabytes of Ram on a
> 450 MH computer and this is not enough to really get most from the
> procedure. It is not machine speed which is critical but the memory
> required to run two powerful multimedia applications in parallel.
>
> However, what this seems to indicate is that we are in sight of methods
> which will make the transcription of text much easier. However, there is
> one further difficulty -namely when I repeat what I hear on the recording
> I tend to convey the emotion in my tone of voice and that confuses the
> voice recognition software. The software is very powerful but only within
> specific limits.
>
> For those investigators who wish to include an understanding of features
> such as tone of voice CISAID will be able to generate vocal profiles
> consisting of volume, pitch and speech rate on a segment by segment basis
> and automatically add these to the codes.
>
> Regards
>
> Alan Cartwright
>
>
>
>
> and8/01/2000 +0000, Elliot Richmond wrote:
>>At 3:27 PM 1/28/2000, Mark Priestley wrote:
>>>b) using speech recognition software
>>
>>I can only respond to this item in your message. I am trying out the
Dragon
>>Systems NaturallySpeaking Mobile Edition. It comes with a digital recorder
>>on which one can record memos and later download those memos to the
speech
>>recognition software.
>>
>>So far, I am not impressed. It may be that my computer (250 mHz AMD K-6
>>with MMX techynology) is not up to the task. Right now, I am going through
>>*all* of the training selections and also building the vocabulary to see
if
>>it helps.
>>
>>No speech recognition software will recognize multiple speakers in the
same
>>session. My NaturallySpeaking software allows multiple users for different
>>sessions, but each session is single-user.
>>
>>I am still satisfied with the performance I get by listening to the tape
>>and repeating the words back as they are said. I do this with video tapes,
>>audio tapes, even printed documents (although the OCR software with my new
>>scanner does a great job). I think a foot pedal controlled transcriber
>>would be a great help, but so far I haven't been able to convince myself
>>the cost is worth it..
>>
>>Elliot Richmond
>>PhD candidate in science education
>>University of Texas at Austin
>>[log in to unmask]
>>http://www.geocities.com/Athens/4758/
>>
> Alan Cartwright PhD
> Code-A-Text Developer
> Email [log in to unmask]
> web page http://www.code-a-text.co.uk
> Also
> Senior Lecturer In Psychotherapy
> Kent Institute of Medicine and Health Sciences.
> University of Kent. UK.
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