[Linganth] transcription services/online resources?

[Kerim Friedman]

I recently saw this overview of transcription tools (both manual and
automated) and remembered this thread. I personally have students use
oTranscribe, which is free, but there are a lot of other options here:

https://medium.com/journalism-innovation/the-best-new-ways-to-transcribe-c4c342abf172

Cheers,

Kerim

On Tue, Jul 18, 2017 at 11:49 PM, Seizer, Susan Amy <sseizer at indiana.edu>
wrote:

> I assign students a transcription exercise: Select a key 10 minutes of the
> interview/s you've done to carefully transcribe, and upload both the
> interview and the transcription for me to grade. This is in an
> undergraduate intro to socio-cultural anthropology course.  But I pay a
> transcriber to transcribe my own fieldwork interviews now, and then read
> her transcripts as I listen to the tapes and correct or mark anything that
> the transcriber has not done to my liking.
>
> Just my two cents! I do think that learning to transcribe is an important
> part of becoming a good field worker.
>
> Best, Susan
>
>
> Susan Seizer
> Associate Professor
> Anthropology
> Indiana University
> http://www.indiana.edu/~anthro/people/faculty/sseizer.shtml
>
> Also check out my two ethnographic project websites:
> www.stigmasofthetamilstage.com
> www.roadcomicsmovie.com
>
>
> On Jul 18, 2017, at 8:38 AM, Jef Van der Aa <j.vanderaa at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> Dear everyone,
>
> There's not just the inequality among students in terms of economy,
> there's also something to say for having students transcribe their own
> data. Not justas  a useful technical exercise/skill (which it is, see Gail
> Jefferson and the (CA) like), but also as a theoretical enterprise.
> Transcribing your own data forces you to pay attention to detail, to words,
> phrases and accents, deeper structures,... only you can recognize in a
> particular sociocultural context. Hymes also gives plenty of arguments for
> it being a useful theoretical-methodological task. Cheers.
>
>
> ------------------------------
> *From:* Claudia Strauss <claudia_strauss at pitzer.edu>
> *To:* Netta Avineri <navineri at gmail.com>; "LINGANTH at LISTSERV.
> LINGUISTLIST.ORG" <LINGANTH at listserv.linguistlist.org>
> *Sent:* Tuesday, July 18, 2017 3:26 PM
> *Subject:* Re: [Linganth] transcription services/online resources?
>
> Verbal Ink (http://verbalink.com/) <http://verbalink.com/> is good.  They
> charge by the minute of recording time, so you know the cost up front.  No
> transcription service is inexpensive, however, and then you get into the
> problem of some students being able to afford it and others not.
>
> Claudia
> ------------------------------
> *From:* Linganth [linganth-bounces at listserv.linguistlist.org] on behalf
> of Netta Avineri [navineri at gmail.com]
> *Sent:* Monday, July 17, 2017 3:21 PM
> *To:* LINGANTH at LISTSERV.LINGUISTLIST.ORG
> *Subject:* [Linganth] transcription services/online resources?
>
> Hi everyone,
>
> I am wondering if some of you have useful (inexpensive) online
> resources/services you use or know about for transcription, which I could
> pass along to some students. I could compile the list & send it to everyone
> after this Friday, 7/21.
>
> Thanks!
> Netta Avineri
>
> *Netta Avineri, PhD*
> *Assistant Professor, TESOL/TFL*
> *Chair, Intercultural Competence Committee*
> *Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey*
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*P. Kerim Friedman 傅可恩 <http://kerim.oxus.net/>*

Associate Professor
The Department of Ethnic Relations and Cultures
College of Indigenous Studies
National DongHwa University, TAIWAN
副教授國立東華大學族群關係與文化學系
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