Transcription technology?

[Kathryn Howard]

Apology slot: I'm not the most technologically advanced of researchers, but...

For audio files: Express Scribe is freeware, available at <http://www.nch.com.au/scribe/>. You can also buy their foot pedal to use with it. However, I find that the "hot keys" work really, really well. You can easily control start, stop, rewind, pause with automatic rewind, etc. from the keyboard while typing in word. This is what I recommend to my students. 

For video I've been using Inqscribe. It's only about $60. You can link lines of transcript to video, and it also creates subtitled quicktime movies from the transcripts! Really neat. Problem: there are a limited range of video file formats supported.

More recently I've been looking into programs like Nudist (price?) and Atlas.ti (about $700), both of which are more general qualitative software programs that support audio and video files. I would love to hear if others have experience using these with audio / video and transcripts. 

best,
Kathy

----- Original Message -----
From: "galey modan" <gmodan at GMAIL.COM>
To: LINGANTH at LISTSERV.LINGUISTLIST.ORG
Sent: Wednesday, May 12, 2010 3:31:25 PM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern
Subject: Re: Transcription technology?

Further to Steve's question, I'd be interested to know if anyone knows
of any good transcription technology which allows you to use a foot
pedal so you can keep your fingers on the keyboard and stop and
backspace with your foot, like the old-fashioned cassette transcribing
machine way.

Galey

2010/5/12 Leila Monaghan <leila.monaghan at gmail.com>:
> From Steve Bialosok, please reply to him--
> Steve Bialostok <stevebialostok at yahoo.com> (University of Wyoming)
> 10:39am
> I am looking for some sort of transcription technology. My work involves
> both interviews and classroom discourse.  I am unaware of sophisticated
> software other than the type you can buy between $100-200.00 at Best Buy or
> the Apple Store. I have been given a substantial amount of money (far more
> than $200.00) to buy something that works well. And since I'm techno-stupid,
> I'm hoping that it doesn't take a genius to make it work. Anyone out there
> have any ideas or product names. (And to all those techno-savy folk out
> there, what is "easy" and "simple" for you may be brain surgery for me.)
> Steve
>
> --
> Leila Monaghan, PhD
> Department of Anthropology
> University of Wyoming
> Laramie, Wyoming
>