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 Jan 24 2008, 06:59 AM
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I am conducting interviews for my dissertation. Some will be over the phone (most likely cell) and others in person. Is there a digital voice/phone recorder that will allow me to do both and also be downloadable to my PC? Please say they exist. While I'm at it I'll tell you my fantasy about a recorder that would make my life easier. What the hey it couldn't hurt it may actually exist! If I could have a recorder that could record my phone and in person interviews and when I connnected it to my computer showed the actual text of my interview and I could print it! Wow. This is total fantasy isn't it? The one where I don't have to transcribe. Thank you.
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Jan 27 2008, 09:39 PM
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QUOTE (tpsmith @ Jan 23 2008, 10:59 PM)  I am conducting interviews for my dissertation. Some will be over the phone (most likely cell) and others in person. Is there a digital voice/phone recorder that will allow me to do both and also be downloadable to my PC? Good questions. Any digital recorder with USB Mass Storage Class support (meaning the recorder looks like an external disk drive to the PC) will let you record live interviews and then drag them to the computer for transcribing. For the best results, keep the mic close to your interviewee. You may want to invest in clip-on mics to minimize the deer-in-the-headlights effect of poking a mic in someone's face. To get cell phone conversations into the recorder, you'll need an adapter such as the JK Audio Cell Tap. I used a similar JK Audio tap on my landline phone before switching to Skype for phone interviews and found it very well constructed. (The previous link has lots of good background on telephone interviewing.) For transcribing interviews, I wrote my own Mac dictaphone software; it lets me control playback of an audio file from my computer keyboard, the way a professional transcriptionist uses a footpedal. Another freebie is NCH Express Scribe (Mac/Win/Linux), though I haven't tried it. For an automated approach, Dragon Naturally Speaking gets good reviews. -------------------- David Battino
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Feb 28 2008, 11:22 PM
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QUOTE (David Battino @ Jan 27 2008, 04:39 PM) For an automated approach, Dragon Naturally Speaking gets good reviews. David, have you tried the Mac version of Dragon's voice recognition/transcription software? I heard it wasn't up to par with the PC naturally speaking... |
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Feb 29 2008, 04:59 PM
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QUOTE (fotofan @ Feb 29 2008, 12:22 AM) the Mac version of Dragon's voice recognition/transcription software? I heard it wasn't up to par with the PC naturally speaking... At last January's Macworld Expo, MacSpeech Dictate (the successor to iListen) was announced. This application uses the recognition engine from Nuance's Dragon Naturally Speaking on the PC, and the demos they gave were very impressive! |
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