[CODE4LIB] Transcription/dictation software?

2012-02-27 Thread Suchy, Daniel
Hello all, At my campus we offer podcasts of course lectures, recorded in class and then delivered via iTunes and as a plain Mp3 download (http://podcast.ucsd.edu). I have the new responsibility of figuring out how to transcribe text versions of these audio podcasts for folks with hearing

Re: [CODE4LIB] Transcription/dictation software?

2012-02-27 Thread Sean Hannan
Mechanical Turk it. (I hear that's what all the hipsters do while they watch Downton Abbey.) -Sean On 2/27/12 1:52 PM, Suchy, Daniel dsu...@ucsd.edu wrote: Hello all, At my campus we offer podcasts of course lectures, recorded in class and then delivered via iTunes and as a plain Mp3

Re: [CODE4LIB] Transcription/dictation software?

2012-02-27 Thread Jason Stirnaman
That's what I hear, too. You might also look at http://support.google.com/youtube/bin/answer.py?hl=enanswer=100076 Jason On 2/27/2012 at 12:56 PM, in message cb713bfa.df25%shan...@jhu.edu, Sean Hannan shan...@jhu.edu wrote: Mechanical Turk it. (I hear that's what all the hipsters do

Re: [CODE4LIB] Transcription/dictation software?

2012-02-27 Thread todd.d.robb...@gmail.com
Dan, Here's a great list Ben Brumfield has put together that compares a lot of the options out there (note: there are quite a few in here that are for manuscript stuff): https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AsXpm6NXLstzdExZZzhaclhIY1ZtMk5yazJlT1FReUE#gid=0 Tod -- Tod Robbins iSchool

Re: [CODE4LIB] Transcription/dictation software?

2012-02-27 Thread Nathan Tallman
Is Amazon Mechanical Turk expensive? Anyone know an average cost for an hour of audio? Nathan On Mon, Feb 27, 2012 at 1:56 PM, Sean Hannan shan...@jhu.edu wrote: Mechanical Turk it.

Re: [CODE4LIB] Transcription/dictation software?

2012-02-27 Thread Yitzchak Schaffer
On 02/27/2012 15:22, Nathan Tallman wrote: Is Amazon Mechanical Turk expensive? Anyone know an average cost for an hour of audio? I used to do transcriptions on the worker side. I preferred clips of 30-60 seconds; there seemed to be a better going rate. Often there would be a big set of

Re: [CODE4LIB] Transcription/dictation software?

2012-02-27 Thread Richard Wallis
Hi, Not sure of Mechanical Turk. However, have used CastingWords [http://castingwords.com/] successfully for transcribing podcasts - their budget rate is $1/minute. ~Richard On 27 February 2012 20:22, Nathan Tallman ntall...@gmail.com wrote: Is Amazon Mechanical Turk expensive? Anyone know

Re: [CODE4LIB] Transcription/dictation software?

2012-02-27 Thread Tom Keays
My wife, for a linguistics research project, recorded the responses of her subjects to a list of questions, so that she could transcribe them and analyze them. She got Dragon Dictate with the intention of getting a rough transcription and then, listening to the tape, correct the errors. With so

Re: [CODE4LIB] Transcription/dictation software?

2012-02-27 Thread Joe Hourcle
On Feb 27, 2012, at 1:52 PM, Suchy, Daniel wrote: Hello all, At my campus we offer podcasts of course lectures, recorded in class and then delivered via iTunes and as a plain Mp3 download (http://podcast.ucsd.edu). I have the new responsibility of figuring out how to transcribe text