Cassette Tape Transfeer

[Nicholas Thieberger]

For what it's worth, my experience of digitizing files by myself may 
be useful. I just connected the computer and the tape recorder and 
did the work that way, but the files produced by doing this were not 
great. This is because the analog to digital converter in computers 
is not very good.

But I used Transcriber to link to those files, and then later I had 
an archive digitize them at the sort of quality they needed, using 
thebest equipment. So then my Transcriber files didn't link to the 
better quality files. And since I want my transcriptions to relate to 
the files that will be around in the long term, I then had to realign 
my transcripts and audio.

The lesson for me is that I should have made the best possible 
digital version of the cassette to begin with, before I put all the 
time into transcribing it. And that file has to go into an archive so 
that it is available for the speakers of the language in future.


Nick

>I've had really good luck with the iMic, which imports sound very 
>easily onto a Mac, using the (free) sound-editiing software program, 
>Audacity.  I've imported from reels recorded in 1960s on a Uher, and 
>also from cassette tapes.  (It took a while to find the right 
>connecting cable for the Uher, but once I found one, it worked 
>great.)  The iMic costs about $30. 
>For PCs, others will have to answer...
>
>Margie Buckner

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Project Manager
PARADISEC
Department of Linguistics and Applied Linguistics
University of Melbourne, Vic 3010
Australia

nicholas.thieberger at paradisec.org.au
Ph 61 (0)3 8344 5185

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Pacific And Regional Archive for Digital Sources in Endangered Cultures
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