professional video transcription?

[Marilyn Vihman]

You are thinking of getting non-linguists, non-phoneticians to transcribe infants as young as 13 months? How useful do you expect the resulting data to be? I think there will turn out to be no substitute for 'hiring, training and supervising transcribers'. Of course, it depends what you want to learn from the data - but I am afraid infants up to age 2 or 3 won't give you data of any real interest unless the transcriber has linguistic training of some kind.

-marilyn vihman


On 4 Mar 2014, at 17:09, Eileen Graf <eileen.graf at googlemail.com> wrote:

> Dear everyone,
> 
> We are planning to obtain language samples from parent-child dyads over a period of 5 years. Over this period, we will accumulate almost 14,000 hours of video, and we are looking to find the most cost-effective way to have them transcribed. 
> 
> We are considering a professional transcription service (in the US: www.verbalink.com), since they are quite a lot cheaper than the cost of hiring, training and supervising transcribers. However, we have a few concerns, and were wondering if anybody has experiences to share. 
> 
> Our study will follow children from 1;1 to 4;6 and we're concerned about transcription by people who are not  in some way trained in language development, especially at the younger ages. But maybe this concern is unwarranted and a verbatim transcription (of literally every sound that the parent or the child produces) will give us what we need?
> 
> Similarly, our study population are to a large extent speakers of AAVE, and we're somewhat wary as to whether a non-academic transcription service can be trusted to transcribe AAVE felicitously. 
> 
> We're also wondering whether it is relatively easy to convert verbatim transcripts into the CHAT format or whether it would be advisable to transcribe using CHAT in the first place. 
> 
> If anyone has experience with or advice on these issues we would be most grateful for your input!
> 
> Best,
> Eileen Graf
> 
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