{"id":99,"date":"2010-07-30T15:04:22","date_gmt":"2010-07-30T22:04:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tabithahart.net\/?p=99"},"modified":"2010-12-01T13:38:12","modified_gmt":"2010-12-01T20:38:12","slug":"transcription-made-easier","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tabithahart.net\/?p=99","title":{"rendered":"Transcription made easier?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Anyone in the business of analyzing talk knows that with every interview, focus group, or interaction comes the laborious task of transcribing it.\u00a0 When I\u2019m really speedy I can transcribe 15 minutes of talk in about one hour, but that\u2019s only a rough cut that doesn\u2019t include Jeffersonian notations.\u00a0 When I\u2019m adding those in, it nearly doubles the transcription time.<\/p>\n<p>(Note:\u00a0 The Jeffersonian Notation system, developed by the late Gail Jefferson, who was an acclaimed Conversation Analyst, is a set of notations\/markers that can be used to preserve phatic and other paralinguistic qualities of speech.\u00a0 See this <a href=\"http:\/\/www.liso.ucsb.edu\/Jefferson\/Transcript.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Glossary of Transcript Symbols<\/a> by Gail Jefferson herself.)<\/p>\n<p>Is there anything to make transcription easier, short of paying someone else to do it for you?\u00a0 This week in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2010\/07\/29\/technology\/personaltech\/29pogue.html?pagewanted=2&amp;_r=1&amp;nl=technology&amp;emc=cta1\" target=\"_blank\">NY Times, David Pogue wrote an enthusiastic review<\/a> of\u00a0 Dragon NaturallySpeaking for Windows.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nuance.com\/naturallyspeaking\/products\/whatsnew_upgrade.asp\" target=\"_blank\">Dragon NaturallySpeaking<\/a> is a newly revamped and (according to Pogue) much improved voice recognition software package.\u00a0 I don\u2019t have a copy of it myself, but it sounds like it might be a great tool for generating good (not perfect) rough cuts of recorded talk.\u00a0 Even better, the professional, premium, and home packages all have multiple language capabilities, including English, Dutch, French, German, Italian and Spanish.\u00a0 The downside is that Dragon NaturallySpeaking is only available for PC.\u00a0 However, Nuance, the company behind Dragon NaturallySpeaking, does offer a software package called MacSpeech Dicate for us Mackies.<\/p>\n<p>If I paid the $100-200 for the home or premium versions and had my transcription time greatly reduced, I\u2019d think it well worth the price.<\/p>\n<p>Any insight on this?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Anyone in the business of analyzing talk knows that with every interview, focus group, or interaction comes the laborious task of transcribing it.\u00a0 When I\u2019m really speedy I can transcribe 15 minutes of talk in about one hour, but that\u2019s only a rough cut that doesn\u2019t include Jeffersonian notations.\u00a0 When I\u2019m adding those in, it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5,3,9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tabithahart.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tabithahart.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tabithahart.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tabithahart.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tabithahart.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=99"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/tabithahart.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":119,"href":"https:\/\/tabithahart.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99\/revisions\/119"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tabithahart.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=99"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tabithahart.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=99"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tabithahart.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=99"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}