If you just can't, or just don't want to do your own time-consuming transcription of your qualitative data recordings (e.g. interviews), here are some resources that may be of help. Some are free, some charge a fee, and some will give you some free time to start and then charge
- Login with your MyCarletonOne login/pwd
- Upload your audio or video files
- Once logged in and media uploaded, select to view “my media”
- Click on the file you want to use
- Under Actions (below and to right of media player) --> Order Captions
- May take a bit of time, but once captions are ready, go under Actions --> Captions Request and you should see the caption file and option to edit.
- There does not seem to be an option to separately download a copy of the file, but you can edit and then copy and paste the text into Word, or NVivo, or wherever you may need i
For recent reviews of some best bets: Best speech to text software in 2020: Free, paid and online voice recognition apps and services
The following are some possibilities.
Allows uploading of media files:
- Speechnotes - can dictate via microphone or upload files
- NVivo's Transcription module: Not free. For anyone using NVivo, you have access to their Transcription module from within your myNVivo account.
- Transcribe - dictate or upload files, free 1 week trial, fee afterwards
- TranscribeMe ($0.79 per minute): offers very competitive pricing for transcription. Offers various student discounts. "First Draft" is highly accurate and comes within a day.
- Watson speech to text can upload audio files, free for 500 min/month
- YouTube:
- If you have an audio file, convert it to video* (usually mp3 audio to mp4 video) and upload to your YouTube account
*use something like VLC Player or media.io to do the audio to "video" conversion - Mark video as private
- YouTube will transcribe your file for closed captioning, provides editor to correct any errors
- Can then download your transcription and edit to your format requirements.
- If you have an audio file, convert it to video* (usually mp3 audio to mp4 video) and upload to your YouTube account
No uploading of files:
You would need to re-speak the audio into a microphone (still faster than traditional transcribing)
- Google Docs Voice Typing - free, need Google account. Create a new Google Doc & select “voice typing” option from the “tools” menu.
- Dragon Home - not free, and no longer supported on Macs
- Dictation.io - free app for Google Chrome that allows you to transform speech to text without downloading or installing anything. Only works on computer, not on tablets
