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Top Five Tips on How to Organize Your Oral History Transcribed Interviews
You have done a great job of transcribing your oral history interviews, but now you may wonder how to organize them for future use. Here are some tips to help you sort out your transcripts and make them more accessible and meaningful. First, you should create a folder for each interviewee and store their transcript,…
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Best Practices While Conducting Oral History Interviews with Marginalized Communities.
Oral history’s marginalized communities are those whose stories have been historically excluded or silenced. This includes people of color, women, LGBTQ+ people, people with disabilities, people from low-income backgrounds, immigrants, refugees, rural communities, religious and political minorities, and survivors of trauma or violence. Marginalized communities are often underrepresented in oral history collections because they have…
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Drawbacks of video conferencing for oral history interviews and solutions
Video conferencing for oral historians is a great way to conduct interviews with people who have lived through important events or periods of history. It allows you to connect with them from anywhere in the world, without having to travel or worry about the quality of the audio recording. You can also see their facial…
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How to Transfer Audio from Zoom H1n to Computer
In this post, I show you how you can transfer your audio files from the Zoom H1n to your computer. This is the final post in this series on how to your use Zoom H1n to record your oral history interviews. The first post in this series was a how to guide on how to…
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How to set the right microphone sensitivity on the Zoom H1n
In this post, I am going to show you how to set right the microphone sensitivity on the Zoom H1n for your oral history interviews. This is the third post in this tutorial series on how to use your Zoom H1n to record your oral history interviews. The first post in this series was a…
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How to Set Recording Format on the Zoom H1n for Oral History Recordings
In this post, I will guide you on how to set the recording format on the Zoom H1n. This is the second post in this tutorial series on how to use your Zoom H1n to record your oral history interviews. The first post in this series was a how to guide on how to format…
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How to Format microSD card using Zoom H1n
In this blog post I am going to share with you a step by step guide on how to format a microSD card using the Zoom H1n. Why? Well, I recently had a chat with an oral historian that is looking to conduct oral history interviews. They got the Zoom H1n audio recorder a few…
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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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Advantages of Transcribing Oral History Interviews
Transcribing oral history interviews is a crucial step in preserving and sharing the stories of people who have witnessed or participated in significant events. It involves converting the spoken words of an interviewee into written text. This can be done manually by a human transcriber, or automatically by a software program. There are several advantages…