transcription estimate and best practices inquiry

[Bryan James Gordon]

Liz Kennedy here at UA is involved with a grant from Georgia to develop
transcription/translation protocols for a program down in South America.
Working with native speakers trained in writing and teaching their language
and with linguists fluent in the language, they allotted 20 hours to the
transcript/translation of each individual story. This seemed generous to me,
but I know sometimes variation and garbled recordings can slow you down.

Any word yet on the dates of the conference this year?

- Bryan

2010/3/8 Mark J Awakuni-Swetland <mawakuni-swetland2 at unlnotes.unl.edu>

> Aloha all,
> I need some guidance!
>
> I am pulling together a grant proposal to begin field checking the 20K
> JODorsey slip lexicon that is emerging from my NEH Omaha and Ponca Digital
> Dictionay project.
>
> Catherine Rudin and I will work with Omaha speakers to confirm lexemes,
> fill in inflected forms, elicit contemporary-context sample sentences, and
> other cultural information.
>
> We will concentrate on digitally audio recording the sessions.
>
> Video remains problematic for my speakers.
>
> As we all know, a one hour session will have many false starts and other
> chit chat.
>
> *1) What are your thoughts about editing out that material prior to
> transcription?*
>
> Rory Larson and I worked with our UNL speakers last year to test out the
> field checking process. We captured some very rich materials. However, the
> majority of clock time was in English, less in Omaha.
>
> My thoughts are to hire one or more GTAs to do the first pass of
> transcription for the English while flagging the Omaha for me to handle.
>
> I am investigating the ELAN software program and appreciate David Rood and
> Iren Hartmann's input on that.
>
> I expect we would do a simple 'first pass' of straight transcription at
> this point.
>
> *2) What have been your experiences with estimates of time required to do
> a 'simple' transcription of English?*
> **
> *3) What about the Native language transcription time?*
> **
> Many thanks for considering this.
>
> Mark
>
>
> Mark Awakuni-Swetland, Ph.D.
> Assistant Professor of Anthropology
> and Ethnic Studies (Native American Studies)
> University of Nebraska
> Lincoln, NE 68588-0368
>
> http://omahalanguage.unl.edu
> http://omahaponca.unl.edu
> Phone 402-472-3455
> FAX: 402-472-9642
>
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