[Ethnocomm] Transcriptions

[Castor, Theresa]

Re. Evelyn's question about a free QDA: RQDA is free and open source. It's also interesting because of its connection to R, but it has a bit of a learning curve and isn't as user-friendly as some of the paid options. (See: https://rqda.r-forge.r-project.org/) There's also ANTCONC (https://www.laurenceanthony.net/software/antconc/_ ), which is a corpus analysis program.

Theresa
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Great question, Evelyn. I look forward to input from our EC team!

Donal

On Jan 8, 2026, at 8:55 PM, Evelyn Y Ho <eyho at usfca.edu> wrote:

 Hi All,
I’ve been using Panopto’s auto-transcription because our school has a license with them. But Zoom’s auto transcription feature works pretty well too. Same reason - trying to do things that are free for students and we have site licenses with both Panopto and Zoom. BTW, the Panopto Spanish translation works pretty well too!

But since we’re on this - anyone also know of a free version of something like Dedoose or other QDA?

Thanks,
Evelyn


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On Jan 8, 2026, at 10:09 AM, Dollar, Natalie J <ndollar at osucascades.edu> wrote:

Hi all, I'm wondering which transcription software you ask your undergraduate students to use to transcribe interviews and other data? I've tried a few, yet most seem to come with transcription per day or week limits without a subscription or have another significant barrier to use. I'm interested in any feedback and discussion around this topic. Thank you and I hope your 2026 is off to a great beginning, Natalie Dollar

Natalie Dollar, PhD
Communication & Social Sciences
OSU-Cascades
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