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How to Use Your Zoom H1n to Record Your Oral History Interviews
The Zoom H1n is a portable digital recorder that is popular for a variety of uses, including recording all your oral history interviews. It’s a great choice for anyone who needs a high-quality portable recorder. It is easy to use, produces excellent sound quality, and is very affordable. In this series, we’ll look at a…
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Difficulties When Transcribing Oral History Interviews.
The purpose of this blog is to examine the main challenges that arise in the process of transcribing oral history recordings. We will discuss four aspects that make this task particularly complex and demanding, and offer some suggestions on how to overcome them. Overlapping Words Transcribing oral history interviews can be challenging when dealing with…
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Zoom H1n Review For your Oral History Interviews
There are a number of recorders that can be used to record your oral history interviews and choosing the best voice recorders will depend on a lot of factors. Zoom H1 has been the choice of many oral historians due to its small size and simplicity, but the evolution continued. Zoom has since then introduced…
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Best Practices for Recording Oral History Interviews
Let’s get right into it. First and foremost ensure there are no extraneous noises such as pets, people having conversations, traffic that may distract your recording process. Sometimes noise can be inevitable, check out my blog on Top Tips on How to Record your Oral History Interviews in a Noisy Environment. However the less noise…
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3 tips While Recording a Phone Interview
The other day, an oral historian got in touch with me to transcribe an audio on refugees in Sudan. It was about a two-hour long audio file. Exciting right? Well yes, I mean transcription is fun but, in this case, I just had a couple of issues that I felt I needed to share and…
