The National Archives has a lot of great citizen archivist missions. One of them includes transcribing the Revolutionary War pension and bounty land applications. Think of the stories you will find!

https://www.archives.gov/citizen-archivist/missions?utm_campaign=asianpacific-may2023&utm_medium=email&utm_source=newsletter

#genealogy #history #RevWar250 #revolutionarywar #transcribing

#Transcribing #interviews where the only #annotations are #pronouns so I'm #annotating as I go. So slow that I'm not sure this is better than listening back a second time to do the annotations instead.

#linguistics #methods #sociolinguistics #languagevariation #corpuslinguistics

Conducting interviews but hate #transcribing? Want to tell participants that you won't share their data with transcription services?

I wrote a blog post about using Whisper #AI (by OpenAI) for local transcription: https://www.heltweg.org/posts/whisper-ai-local-transcribe/#research #academia #podcast

Wanted to tear my hair out after using the Microsoft 365 transcription function to get a text version of an audio conversation I had with a beta reader.

The AI repeatedly inserted "you know" —and I do mean repeatedly— as well as "And then" and "So then" when neither of us said that. It also doubled and tripled words. E.g., "And and and" like the AI had hiccups!

I've spent most of the day editing out the non-existent verbiage to get a useful document. Argh! 🤬

#transcribing #AmWriting #AI

Ok #corpus people who use #ELAN, how do you store #metadata on the participants you're #transcribing? Seems the devs suggest CMDI files, but that seems overly complicated (unless there's some benefit for exporting afterward).

#linguistics #corpuslinguistics #sociolinguistics #languagevariation #psycholinguistics #transcription

The 2023 London International Palaeography Summer School for all your manuscript research training needs. Check out the excellent programme, including (ahem) my course on "Transcribing and Editing Manuscripts (after 1700)" .

https://ies.sas.ac.uk/london-international-palaeography-school

#manuscripts #archives #editing #handwriting #transcribing #palaeography #paleography #summerschool #researchtraining #skills

I'm looking for #transcription services (business/freelance) who can manage #Manglish and/or Bahasa #Malaysia (can be the same company/person or different). Recommendations appreciated, as would boosts and other sharing! #academia #research #transcribing

#Serendipity is #Transcribing a letter from a Bank cashier during your winter break and realizing that it was written *exactly* 200 years ago this day.

I swear, I did not plan this. It just happened to work out that way.

#NewYork #Merchant Robert Lenox wrote a letter in 1822, mentioning Timothy Pickering as a possible candidate to be a director of a bank.

Timothy Pickering? Wait, is that the same guy I remember from Garry Wills's book on TJ, JA, and slavery that @CPostel once assigned my M.A. class many years ago?

Sure enough, it was! Pickering died in 1829.

#MercantileBanking #antebellumera #financialhistory #politicalhistory #transcribing #microfiche

He had some #antislavery cred if I recall.

My #introduction post:

Hey there! I'm Holly Wade Matter, #writer, #knitter (since 2004), and mom to a mini rex house #rabbit named Puss.

The coolest job I've ever had was #transcribing for 3play Media. Among other projects, I got to transcribe a number of interviews for the #Shoah Foundation. That's the most meaningful work I have ever done, or ever will do.

My #novel, Damned Pretty Things, was published in 2020. It's a very nice novel and everybody should read it.

The end.

been sick in bed so transcribed a thing. https://youtu.be/yeKjOl0fe4o #musodon #transcribing #jazz

#Journalists, I must tell you about Sonix.ai for the amazing #transcribing tool it is. I had an hour-and-a-half interview and the speaker spoke with a heavy French accent. Despite that, Sonix was able to #transcribe about 90% of it accurately, and very little needed to be edited.

Some tips if you're holding a meeting, #FocusGroup, or similar that will need #transcribing with identification:

1. Record with video, but if that's not possible:

2. Record in stereo;
3. Get every speaker to introduce themselves;
4. Repeat names from time to time;
5. Don't move people around!

That last point is important. Part of identification is hearing where people are in the soundscape (left, centre, right; near or far). If people move, it can really throw off clues as to who is speaking!

Today we're off to hcmf// where Zubin Kanga will be performing Cyborg Soloists-commissioned works by Philip Venables and Laura Bowler.

Tomorrow: Venables' "Answer Machine Tape, 1987" (UK premiere), which uses the #KeyScanner - a device which sits over the keys of the piano, detecting which notes are played, converting the instrument into a typewriter, #transcribing messages from David Wojnarowicz's answering machine in this poignant reflection on queer history.

https://www.cyborgsoloists.com/answer-machine-tape-1987

Plodding along with a difficult #proofreading job this week, one that needs a lot of amendments to bring it to standard. This is the final one in a set - plenty of time to get it done for the end of the month, but perhaps I'll have it cleared by the end of the week? Would be nice to check that project off.

Also #transcribing an online focus group today, which will go pretty quickly I think; a pretty straightforward job.

not bad #ai #transcribing #speechtotext https://huggingface.co/spaces/openai/whisper via https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nE5iVtwKerA

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