Kristin,
If you can tell me what your difficulty is I will see if I can get you to a
position where you can check out CTANKS properly.
Regards
Alan Cartwright
At 22:06 01/03/2001 -0800, you wrote:
>I know I have seen this addressed in previous posts, but I'm still not
>clear, and would love the benefit of the collective wisdom of the List. Is
>there any way around spending a lot of time and money transcribing tapes to
>make them ready for qualitative analysis on the computer? I know C-TANKS
>has been mentioned, but I can't quite figure out how it works (I ordered
>the demo.) How about voice recognition software? I suspect it can't work
>off a tape, but how about a person who has "trained" the software repeating
>a tape into the voice recognition mike? How about digital recorders that
>have voice recognition built in? (I read in the New York Times about an
>Olympus digital tape recorder that has this.) And finally, if I have to go
>the old-fashioned way (again!) can anyone recommend a good tape
>transcription machine, i.e. a tape recorder that you can slow down, speed
>up, and use with a foot pedal, etc. I know this is a pain for all of us,
>and I'd love to hear thoughts as well as name-brand recommendations.
>
>Kristin Luker
>UC Berkeley
>Kristin Luker
>Professor of Sociology and Professor in the Jurisprudence and Social Policy
>Program,
>Boalt Hall School of Law
>
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