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Wešve had good experience with just using our student employees. They get
quite fast at it and become content experts at the same time, which comes
in really handy if the content is user research and the like.

-Sean

On 4/25/14, 9:24 AM, "Rachel Shaevel" <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

>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
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>
>-----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
>>>