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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 ------------------------------------------------------------------------