Did you look at http://storycorps.org/ ?


Best,
Johan
@johanoomen

2012/10/2 Paul Orkiszewski <[log in to unmask]>

> Hi 4libers,
>
> Does anyone know of something - a kiosk, an iPad app, a web application -
> that:
>
> - Initiates an oral history interview by getting demographic info and
> permission to use and stream for scholarly purposes.
> - Goes through a standard set of questions (in our case stuff about the
> Appalachian State experience)
> - Stores the metadata, permissions release, and pointers to the audio
> files created for each question in a dbase record
> - Processes the audio through speech recognition either in real time or
> post-interview, and populates the dbase record with rendered text (at
> whatever level of accuracy)
> - Provide a search interface, where the meatadata, demographic info
> (within reasonable privacy limits), and the transcript (however garbled) is
> searchable.
> - Crowd source the improvement of the transcriptions over time
> - Package the interface as an app, and set up a machine image on Amazon
> EC2, such that when someone uses the image and points a browser to it, it
> goes through a set up routine so that smaller schools and historical
> societies can set up their own sites in the cloud.  I haven't tried
> streaming on a free tier EC2 server, but you get 30 GB of storage, so you
> could get a fair number of hours of audio (depending on the settings)
> before you have to start paying.
>
> ?
>
> Anyone interested in trying it with me if there's nothing already out
> there?  I'm leaning toward iPad, so we'd need iOS, server admin, dbase, and
> media expertise.  I have newbie-but-getting-better skill in the last 3.
>  Zero skill in iOS.
>
> Paul
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