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How to Transcribe an Oral History Interview
If you haven’t already checked out my previous blog on what is oral history, kindly have a look at it. Just to recap, in the blog, we defined it as the collection of historical data from individuals who either lived through a moment in time or have crucial information regarding the moment. It is therefore…
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Transcription For Beginners
Having been a transcriber for over 6 years (yeah, that long). I get a lot of questions, from family, friends, friends of friends, about what I do followed by requests to teach what I do. Sadly, sometimes I don’t have the time to completely break down what it is I do – Too busy transcribing…
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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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Oral History Technology: Top Three Tips on Picking a Foot Pedal.
Imagine not having to go through the tedious process of using your mouse or keyboard specific keys to play, pause, rewind, forward your oral history audio file? Instead, having to do that with a foot pedal using your foot? Sounds pretty cool right? As an oral historian ready to transcribe your audios, you probably have…
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Choosing the Best Voice Recorders for Your Oral History Interviews
When selecting a voice recorder for your oral history interviews, you don’t want this to be an everyday event. You want to do it once and kind of put it in the back of your mind and forget about it for a while. So, let’s look at what to consider when choosing a voice recorder…
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Top Tips on How to Ask Questions in An Oral History Interview
In oral history, interviews are important as they can convey personality, explain motivation, and reveal inner thoughts and perceptions. To some extent an interview may serve as the only source of information available about a certain event, person or period of time. This is why it is vital that an interviewer/oral historian be well prepared…
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Top Tips on How to Record your Oral History Interviews in a Noisy Environment
An oral history interview recorded in a noisy environment is a nightmare to anyone who has to listen back to the recordings, especially anyone given the task to transcribe the audio. It’s a fact that sometimes researchers require transcribers to perform miracles and turn poorly recorded data into immaculate transcripts. As transcribers, we would love…
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Best MicroSD cards for your Zoom H1n Oral History Recorders
In my previous blog about The Four Best Voice Recorders for Your Oral History Interviews, we looked at Zoom H1n. Now we’re going to look at microSD cards that can be used as additional memory to the Zoom H1n recorder. SanDisk Ultra 32GB If you are looking for a microSD for your Zoom H1n recorder…
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The Four Best Voice Recorders for Your Oral History Interviews
In this post I’m going to share my top three picks for the best voice recorders for your oral history interviews and some amazing features they each come with. My top four pics are Zoom H1n This is considered the newer and better version of the Zoom H1. It is an entry level professional digital…
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Top Three Possible Sources of Funding for Oral History Research
The execution of an oral history research project is dependent not only on the effort of the researcher but also on the availability of infrastructure to conduct the research for it to be successful. The conduct of a research project entails expenses on man and material and funding is essential to meet these requirements. It…
