Piggybacking on the topic...what about transcription services for .wav files? Same companies/services as video or different? We have a collection of about 40 interviews and I think it would be a bonus to include transcripts when we upload them to our web site. Rachel Shaevel Electronic Resources Cataloger Technical Services/Catalog Department Chicago Public Library Harold Washington Library Center 400 S. State St. Chicago, IL 60605 P: (312) 747-4660 [log in to unmask] -----Original Message----- From: Code for Libraries [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Amy Vecchione Sent: Thursday, April 24, 2014 6:58 PM To: [log in to unmask] Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] Transcription services I highly recommend 3playmedia. For short in house self made videos we use YouTube and then clean it up. Amy > On Apr 24, 2014, at 5:25 PM, Ahniwa Ferrari <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > > We have hired services in the past but I always felt they were > overpriced and the quality wasn't great. We started doing our own for > certain projects (you can add your own transcriptions in YouTube, > which is handy, and then it will automatically provide translated > versions for you). I always wanted to try putting them up on Amazon > Turk and seeing if we could get some good transcriptions on the cheap. > > > On Thu, Apr 24, 2014 at 3:01 PM, Wilhelmina Randtke <[log in to unmask]>wrote: > >> Has anyone used a transcription service to do captioning for a video, >> or anything similar? >> >> There are many transcription services that charge a per minute fee. >> I'd like to get a recommendation on one that worked well for someone. >> >> -Wilhelmina Randtke >>