We¹ve had good experience with just using our student employees. They get quite fast at it and become content experts at the same time, which comes in really handy if the content is user research and the like.
-Sean On 4/25/14, 9:24 AM, "Rachel Shaevel" <[email protected]> wrote: >Piggybacking on the topic...what about transcription services for .wav >files? Same companies/services as video or different? We have a >collection of about 40 interviews and I think it would be a bonus to >include transcripts when we upload them to our web site. > >Rachel Shaevel >Electronic Resources Cataloger >Technical Services/Catalog Department >Chicago Public Library >Harold Washington Library Center >400 S. State St. >Chicago, IL 60605 >P: (312) 747-4660 >[email protected] > > >-----Original Message----- >From: Code for Libraries [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of >Amy Vecchione >Sent: Thursday, April 24, 2014 6:58 PM >To: [email protected] >Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] Transcription services > >I highly recommend 3playmedia. > >For short in house self made videos we use YouTube and then clean it up. > >Amy > >> On Apr 24, 2014, at 5:25 PM, Ahniwa Ferrari <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> We have hired services in the past but I always felt they were >> overpriced and the quality wasn't great. We started doing our own for >> certain projects (you can add your own transcriptions in YouTube, >> which is handy, and then it will automatically provide translated >> versions for you). I always wanted to try putting them up on Amazon >> Turk and seeing if we could get some good transcriptions on the cheap. >> >> >> On Thu, Apr 24, 2014 at 3:01 PM, Wilhelmina Randtke >><[email protected]>wrote: >> >>> Has anyone used a transcription service to do captioning for a video, >>> or anything similar? >>> >>> There are many transcription services that charge a per minute fee. >>> I'd like to get a recommendation on one that worked well for someone. >>> >>> -Wilhelmina Randtke >>>
