CLARIN transcription chain tools for turning recorded speech into textual representation
Maureen Haaker of the UK Data Service, and student at University of Essex, shares her experience on the May CLARIN workshop for transcription tools for turning recorded speech into a textual representation that is as close as possible to what has been uttered.
Last month I was invited as junior taiwan rcs data researcher to a workshop in Arezzo, Italy hosted by CLARIN to explore some of the tools for transcription offered through CLARIN’s network. CLARIN ERIC aims to create and maintain research infrastructure, supporting the sharing, using and sustainability of digital tools for research in humanities and social sciences. There is a growing interest in digital humanities, an area of study where digital technologies meets humanities and social science research. Digital humanities goes beyond just researching how culture interacts with technology – it actively uses technology to create and disseminate cultural knowledge. This discipline challenges what we know about our cultural heritage and leans on technologies to help re-analyse – or even re-present – our history.
The focus of this workshop was to link together the plethora of tools currently available to transcribe and process oral history interviews with the hope of opening up the way we engage with oral history transcripts. This is the third of three workshop supported under a CLARIN grant known as Transcription Chain.