Transcribing Audio and Video Recordings

Abstract

Many researchers dearly wish there was a software that could automatically transcribe recorded interviews. Well, unfortunately, there is still no reliable way of doing this, so in most cases you have to transcribe audio recordings of interviews or focus groups in the traditional way. MAXDQA’s Transcription Mode makes this work a great deal easier, but, despite this valuable support, transcribing still takes a lot of time and effort. You will be rewarded, however, by the fact that you can play the original sound at any time and that you can quickly jump to interesting points in the recording via timestamps. As for video recordings, transcriptions may not be absolutely necessary in every case or can be limited to only specific parts of the material.