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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 > -- > > ------------------------------**------------------------------** > ------------ > *Paul Orkiszewski* > Coordinator of Library Technology Services / Associate Professor > University Library > Appalachian State University > 218 College Street > P.O. Box 32026 > Boone, NC 28608-2026 > > E-mail: [log in to unmask] > Phone: 828 262 6588 > Fax: 828 262 2797 > ------------------------------**------------------------------** > ------------ >