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<div><font color="#000000">For what it's worth, my experience of
digitizing files by myself may be useful. I just connected the
computer and the tape recorder and did the work that way, but the
files produced by doing this were not great. This is because the
analog to digital converter in computers is not very
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<div><font color="#000000">But I used Transcriber to link to those
files, and then later I had an archive digitize them at the sort of
quality they needed, using thebest equipment. So then my Transcriber
files didn't link to the better quality files. And since I want my
transcriptions to relate to the files that will be around in the long
term, I then had to realign my transcripts and audio.</font></div>
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<div><font color="#000000">The lesson for me is that I should have
made the best possible digital version of the cassette to begin with,
before I put all the time into transcribing it. And that file has to
go into an archive so that it is available for the speakers of the
language in future.</font></div>
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<div><font color="#000000">Nick</font></div>
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<blockquote type="cite" cite>I've had really good luck with the iMic,
which imports sound very easily onto a Mac, using the (free)
sound-editiing software program, Audacity. I've imported from
reels recorded in 1960s on a Uher, and also from cassette tapes.
(It took a while to find the right connecting cable for the Uher, but
once I found one, it worked great.) The iMic costs about
$30. <br>
For PCs, others will have to answer...<br>
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<blockquote type="cite" cite>Margie Buckner</blockquote>
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