Choosing a Transcription Service: Otter.ai vs. Trint

If you are planning to transcribe interviews for your oral history project, you will probably opt to use an AI transcription service. These services make the transcription process easier and faster by producing a rough transcription from your audio files, which the transcriber then manually corrects. In this blog post, we will compare two common … Continue reading Choosing a Transcription Service: Otter.ai vs. Trint

A Short Introduction to Oral History: Episode One

This is the first piece of a series on the many dimensions of oral history. Here we briefly introduce oral history as a methodology and we address critics’ concern over the reliability of oral history sources. In the next episodes of this series, we are going to talk about the history of this field and how it came to be what it is today; interviewing, ethics and best practices; transcribing; archiving and curating oral histories in digital archives; and lastly, IDCL’s lived religion approach and method for the Religions Texas Oral History Project. - Eleonora Anedda