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I've found using otranscribe helpful when I'm on the road -- lets you work right on a blank text file and you can dump the audio file in and slow the track down, speed it up, pause and more off keyboard shortcuts.

OK. Here it is. The big whole transcript.

Feel free to follow along here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ywxDvEDF7Hw

Also, many thanks to JavarisJamarJavari for the suggestion of http://otranscribe.com/ . It was great help!

I'm open to corrections or suggestions on punctuation or anything. I think it might be possible to load the youtube video on the otranscribe page and paste my transcript in and be able to follow along with my timestamps.

I think that's about it. Please do PM me or put any corrections in the comments. Thanks!

Not sure how your teacher was able to transcribe hour-long interviews in an hour and a half, but you can use oTranscribe. It's a free transcribing tool that lets you pause and play audio, and insert time stamps as you type. I typically just jot down the time of the recording for quotes I'll need later.

To make things easier: Here's what I found was useful: If you would like to enjoy the race and transcribe at a later time I would suggest using Audacity to record the scanner/spotter in-car audio. In order for this to work, you need to switch the MME Window (First tab Next to the sound key) to Windows DirectSound. Next hit the record button while the scanner audio is cued on. This will record your audio so you can transcribe it after the race. To save, just export it to mp3. I found this website useful: http://otranscribe.com/ where you can then use the mp3 that you recorded to easily transfer it into a word document. Pro tip: use the ESC button to pause n' go to save time. Sorry for this long explanation, but if anyone has any other tips please share!

There’s a transcription web app called Otranscribe that can do this. It’s both a audio player and a word processor and it’s meant for transcribing audio but it has a hot key for time stamps. Would probably work for what your talking about. http://otranscribe.com/ I don’t know if it works for mobile tho more for desktop.

I'm sorry it's not an android app (web based only), but have you considered using oTranscribe? Binds audio controls to keyboard shortcuts to lets you focus on typing instead of moving away to another window to play - type - pause - rewind.

If you want a good transcript, you're going to have to type them out. (This is what I do.) There are some useful tools like oTranscribe. If you don't mind some silly typos, you can probably find a text-to-speech service that you can submit mp3 files to.

As for actually recording, I have a digital voice recorder I bought from RadioShack for about $50 (you can find cheaper ones if you look). If you have a smartphone though, I'd suggest starting with the voice memos app there to see if you actually like it. You can just email the recordings to yourself if you don't have too many.

For organization, if you don't want to convert them to text and keep that as the final form, you could try an index -- name each of the files, e.g., "2016-08-23 #1", and then start a document where you write a title and a brief description, tags, people who appeared, etc.

> I use http://transcribe.wreally.com/

I'm currently relying on http://otranscribe.com/ , which is free (at least for now.) Just wondering if you had any insight as to whether one was any better than the other?

If you don't have time to start learning to touch type (although learning the basics is probably quicker than you think), get to grips with keyboard shortcuts.

Get your first draft down quickly and don't rewrite anything until you've written the backbone of your story with the most important points. Then go back and check details, tweak phrasing etc.

I also recommend Transcribe Wreally or oTranscribe for faster interview transcription, and Grammarly for proofreading copy.

After reviewing the video and discussing with fellow mods, we believe that this outside our normal scope of work and would be much more beneficial to you if you personally did the work. That being said, here's some pointers:

We definitely recommend using http://otranscribe.com, which is our go-to for something like this. The instructions are all on the website, but it's very useful for putting together transcripts that include things like timestamps. Timestamps are very useful; they help identify where you need to be in the video. As a general rule, we try to place timestamps (CTRL + J if you're on PC, Apple key + J if you're on mac; ESC to play / pause the video) at the beginning of each paragraph or a scene change.

Based on the kind of work we've done in the past, we think this would realistically take you about 2.5 hours to complete, especially if you're just describing the text and not the individual actions.

We'd be happy to answer any questions you have about the transcription process, but again, we believe this is something you'll be better off pursuing on your own.

Stenography is a fascinating profession, if only because it utilizes such niche technology. I only learned about shorthand and the associated tools from wandering Wikipedia last year.

See also: Plover & oTranscribe