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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>Lila asked:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>></span> How did you find the battery life <span
style='color:#1F497D'><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>Battery life sounds bad, at 1-2 hours per pair, but in practice,
I found this was meant no more than one pair a day. I’m sure everyone’s
experience may be different… I found that being a good part of the
community meant that for every 10 minutes of recording, I spent at least another
50 chatting with folks (and I’m an introvert). I had a solar system, so
I used that to charge one pair while I was using the other. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>></span> and/or were there other power issues that came up?<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>My approach included getting everything I’d collected organized
on a computer at the end of each day (using some software we’re building
for that purpose). This meant copying the media over, typing in my notes and
expanding on them, associating informed consent artifacts (audio, video, or photo
of a page), and associating photographs of situations and speakers. Here, the
new “netbook” machines are wonderful; one charge gave me 10 hours
of computer time… the drives are also now 200 Gigs or more, which was
enough to hold the video. Occasionally I plugged in a larger drive which could
be tucked away out of site, in case of theft of the computer.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style='color:#1F497D'>></span> Did you do any transcription using the
Q3 for play-back, and if so how did that go?<br>
<br>
<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>I have not done transcription yet. I did do some “careful
speech”/”oral transcription” (careful repetition) using the
netbook, a headset mike, and external microphone</span><span style='font-size:
11.0pt;font-family:Wingdings;color:#1F497D'>à</span><span style='font-size:
11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>USB converter. I have
not seen any software yet that I could readily train these speakers to use
(including Transcriber), so I would appreciate an suggestions on transcription
tools specially designed for first-time computer users without any formal
education.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><b><span
style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#666666'>John
Hatton</span></b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'> </span><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'><br>
</span><span style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'><a href="http://pnglanguages.org/"><span style='color:#1F497D;
text-decoration:none'>SIL Papua New Guinea</span></a>, <a
href="http://palaso.org"><span style='color:#1F497D;text-decoration:none'>Palaso</span></a>,
& <a href="http://sil.org"><span style='color:#1F497D;text-decoration:none'>SIL
International </span></a>Software Development<br>
</span><span style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:gray'>Chat</span><span style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'> </span><b><span style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:gray'>Google Talk: </span></b><span style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:
"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>hattonjohn </span><b><span
style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:gray'>Skype: </span></b><span
style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>hattonjohn
</span><b><span style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:gray'>Google Wave: </span></b><span style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:
"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>hattonjohn@googlewave.com</span><span
style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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