I’ve just completed transcribing the recording of an interview which lasted 29 minutes. It’s taken me about four hours over the past three days. Still, I musn’t complain, because all the other interviews I’ve done so far have been by email, plus my interviewee gave me lots of useful info and new leads. And , I guess transcribing it would have been a considerably more painful experience without my trusty transcription software. I’ve been using this.
It works pretty well; you can rewind and slow down recordings using the function keys or the ‘dashboard’ controls, and best of all, it’s completely free!
I am so pleased my research doesn’t require me to do many, long interviews. I have every sympathy and respect for my poor colleagues who have hours upon hours of recordings to transcribe and make sense of. :S
