professional video transcription?

[Eileen Brann]

I teach speech pathology students at Governors State, south of your university, and can ask if anyone has experience in transcription of AAVE.
Eileen Brann, PhD
GSU
University Park, IL

On Mar 4, 2014, at 11:09 AM, 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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