[Linganth] [EXT] Re: [External] Re: suggestions on transcription software?

Thu Oct 21 05:55:01 UTC 2021

I transcribe a lot of material in English and Spanish and I like to use the
ELAN transcribing software <https://archive.mpi.nl/tla/elan/download>. It's
free and used quite widely by linguists. It took me a couple days to get
the hang of it, but since then it makes transcribing much easier and
faster. I use it for formal interviews as well as more informal/less
scripted conversations that involve multiple parties. I create different
tiers for translations to follow the original text, and I segment the audio
first into manageable chunks then the transcribing and translating process
goes by faster after that. My usual steps are to segment the speech so that
it's in shorter bits to transcribe, and then do the transcription after
that.

Here are also some videos on how it is used:

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   Some videos on ELAN:
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      https://youtu.be/k__0V6yQQ4Y
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      https://youtu.be/QQv9DIkdThM
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      https://youtu.be/fLeUHb3KWlg

Best of luck!

Jessica

Jessica López-Espino, PhD in Anthropology
Pronouns: she/her/ella
UC President's Postdoctoral Fellow, UC Irvine
http://lopezespinophd.org/

UC Irvine is located on the unceded territory of the Acjachemen/Juaneño and
Tongva/Gabrielino peoples.

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> Hi, Charles.  I’ve used Dragon for tapes in English that were basically
> verbal notes in exhibitions about design communication. It is quite rough,
> but the program trains as it goes and does improve. Transcripts take a lot
> of cleaning up and correcting, but is much faster to work from even a
> flawed transcript.
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> A couple of days ago I was emailing with Vox for a full transcript of an
> interview between Jamil Smith and Bryan Stevenson about the newly expanded
> Legacy Museum exhibits in Montgomery.  So I just asked the Vox folks what
> they use to produce transcriptions of their podcasts. They use sites that
> are either subscription-based or charge by the minute. Their reply is below
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> We use the web site trint.com
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> options out there, like otter.ai
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> Of *Michele Koven
> *Sent:* October 20, 2021 7:18 AM
> *To:* Charles Briggs <clbriggs at berkeley.edu>
> *Cc:* linganth at listserv.linguistlist.org
> *Subject:* [External] Re: [Linganth] suggestions on transcription
> software?
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> Hi all,
>
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> For a first pass, I use Happy Scribe. They have a decent range of
> non-English languages. The transcript will still need a lot of clean up,
> but will give you a first pass. I have used otter but I believe it only
> works for English.
>
>
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> On Wed, Oct 20, 2021 at 8:07 AM Charles Briggs <clbriggs at berkeley.edu>
> wrote:
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> Hi, friends,
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> Might you have suggestions as to which software works best for getting
> an initial rough transcription of recorded speech? I'm drowning in
> mountains of recordings.
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> Thanks and best to all,
>
> Charles
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