Re: [MCN-L] Transcription software for oral histories

2016-05-01 Thread Peter Rooney
, at 2:36 PM, Peter Rooney <magneticrepo...@gmail.com> wrote: Is there a program that can "listen" to an oral interview and transcribe it into text? such a program would need to deal with various persons'voices. The interviewer, however, would remain the same, as well as the genera

[MCN-L] Transcription software for oral histories

2016-04-27 Thread Peter Rooney
Is there a program that can "listen" to an oral interview and transcribe it into text?such a program would need to deal with various persons' voices. The interviewer, however, would remain the same, as well as the general subject matter. Considerable cleanup might be necessary, but that is

[MCN-L] subscription confirmed???

2008-12-10 Thread Peter Rooney
Yes. But is it necessary to answer this? Rooney magnetix at ix.netcom.com new york ny [Original Message] From: Teresa D?az Vera teresadiazvera at gmail.com To: mcn-l at mcn.edu Date: 12/10/2008 11:28:08 AM Subject: [MCN-L] subscription confirmed???

[MCN-L] IP SIG: Google is officially a verb

2006-07-23 Thread Peter Rooney
Could it be an advantage to Google to lose its trademark? It gets complicated. Peter Rooney magnetix at ix.netcom.com new york ny From: amalyah keshet akeshet at netvision.net.il According to the Oxford English Dictionary, it's now perfectly legitimate to say you Googled something. From

Re: copyright newsletter

2005-12-07 Thread Peter Rooney
to folders for reading and archiving. It's almost become a standard for "listservs" to handle messages this way. * The word "listserv" is proprietary, I believe, which is why I put it in quotes. Peter Rooney magne...@ix.netcom.com new york ny - Original Message - From

MCN-L subject lines (was Electronic Signs)

2005-06-09 Thread Peter Rooney
Could I make a suggestion? I'm on the MCN-L mail list, and some of the traffic is useful to me (but "Electronic signs" is not,). I'd appreciate if people would attach theprefix "MCN-L" to their posts, as I've done above, so that one can see ata glance who the source is. Otherwise, in a time of

Re: digital preservation

2003-12-23 Thread Peter Rooney
How about paper? clay tablets? these media have passed the test of time. And phonograph records probably willoutlastCDs. Seriously, though - maybe somebody should be working on a storage format that will physically last for thousands of years, and will be easily read by future generations.