<div dir="auto"><div>Hi Dominika, </div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">I use Vook.ai (an AI-based subscription service) for rapid automatic transcription of English. (It also does Spanish, French, Italian, Portuguese, and German.) You would likely have to sort out overlaps and speaker labels on you own after that. </div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">For field recordings, I liked using SIL's Saymore software, because it provided a place to store recordings and break up a recording into short breath groups and listen again and again with slow speech and type up rough transcriptions, and then I could port the vernacular and free translation lines into FLEx. </div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Which languages are you working with?</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Nathan</div><div><br></div><div data-smartmail="gmail_signature">We are sent into this world for some end. It is our duty to discover by close study what this end is & when we once discover it to pursue it with unconquerable perseverance.<br>JQA at age 12 to his brother Charles (June 1778)</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu, Apr 9, 2026, 12:02 Dominika Baran, Ph.D. <<a href="mailto:dominika.baran@duke.edu">dominika.baran@duke.edu</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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I am looking for recommendations of your favorite tool(s), at the moment, for processing large amounts of recorded spoken & written conversational data (informal interviews, free conversations), for both transcription and coding & analysis. </div>
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I have about 100 hours of digitally recorded conversations, including those among multiple speakers, with lots of simultaneous speech, two conversations going on at once, overlap, and code-switching (mostly bilingual, occasionally trilingual). I also have 13
years of written group chat conversations, which don’t need transcribing but it is over 300,000 words. I am looking for suggestions for software, online or otherwise, for both transcription (which is tricky because of the multilingual and overlapping conversations)
and, more importantly, organization, coding, and analysis. It has been a while since I have dealt with THIS much data and I am sure there is a lot out there that I don’t know about - all and any suggestions of what has worked for folks are very much appreciated! </div>
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