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I was too ellipitical. What I do as a
sociologist is depth interviews that I tape. Until now I've used analog
tapes that are placed in a mechanical machine that is foot operated that enables
you to control the speed of the tape as you type in its content to your
computer.
Digital recordings upload directly to the
computer. The transcriber plays back the digital recording that is now
resident as .dss file on your computer, as you still (alas, alas) manually type
into your wordprocessor. The computer becomes the transcriber.
Next, I'll experiment with voice recognition; my anticipation is that I can
train the machine to recognize my voice so I can dictate observations that will
then be (almost) automatically transcribed. With other voices I'll either
have to listen to them and transcribe them manually or listen to them and
dictate what others are saying in my voice into the machine and hope that it
transcribes it.
Hope this wasn't too much detail.
Herb
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Sent: Friday, January 04, 2002 2:45
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Subject: Re: More on XP
Herb,
Thanks for your
reports on XP. But, the transcriber part of your new digital recorder and
transcriber toy ... what exactly does it transcribe into that you have to
physically type into NBW?
Transfixed in Miami
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From: Herb Rubin
Date: Fri, 4 Jan 2002 11:52:19
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Mark Sfor continue information
on XP.
Irene is using orbis and ibid with no difficulties so
far.
As I mentioned you can't opennb files from the explorer with a
double click; you get a 16 bit error message.
But if the files were initially
stored by nb as .nbw they open fine.
What's most annoying
to me so far is the problems with the depth of thestructure that XP virtually
mandates. (Word has anwork around). Bully Gates virtually forces a user
to store documents underDocuments; that folder XP is alreadyhierarchical
levels down, then if you have any hierarchy in your NB folders you're a few
more levels down. As a result, opening files and creating files in NBW
necessitates using the browse function to see where you are putting
them. A minor cosmetic problemone that could be fixed.
Oh, I got and put up a digital recorder and transcriber (I
haven't mastered it yet, ittake a bunch of practice). But I was able to
play back my recording (boring as heck, I recorded parts of a radio news
show), stopping and starting it at will with a foot pedal while typing what I
heard into NBW.
Herb R
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