Software to record and transcribe interviews?

[Detlef Sprinz]

Dear colleagues,

I will conduct some 20-25 semi-structured interviews with experts, in English, in the coming weeks.  My plans are to digitally record these interviews with my iPhone 5S and transcribe the interviews for analysis.

Are you aware of suitable software, apps, etc. that can both record the interviews and transcribe them?  Siri supposedly can be used as a dictation device, but appears not to be suitable for the dual task of recording plus transcription.

Best regards,
      Detlef

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Detlef F. Sprinz, Ph.D.
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[craig harris]

hi detlef,

 

i’m not aware of any software that i would even remotely

trust to transcribe anywhere near accurately a research interview . . .

 

this is partly because voice transcription programs have to be trained

to each individual speaker,

something that is not feasible with 25 different interviewees . . .

 

in addition, i would argue that actually hearing the tone and inflection

of what the interviewee says

is an important aspect of coding and analysis . . .

 

cheers,

 

craig

 

craig k harris

associate professor

department of sociology

michigan agbio research

center for regional food systems

michigan state university

east lansing  michigan  usa

www.msu.edu/~harrisc 

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[Marc Levy]

I agree that the automatic transcriptions aren't likely to be very
good. If you want transcriptions, I would suggest using a service,
such as http://www.rev.com/.

Marc

[NeilE. Harrison]

I have successfully used both Mechanical Turk and transcription services for this type of work. Mechanical Turk has cost less and been equally accurate,

 

Neil

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> Professor - Potsdam Institute (PIK) & University of Potsdam

[Shannon Kathryn Orr]

I’ve used Speechpad for transcribing international speeches and I was very pleased with their accuracy, even with heavily accented speech which I think is a good test.  It’s fairly reasonable.  https://www.speechpad.com

Shannon

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Bowling Green State University

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