2. Transcribing Interviews

Depending on your project, you may have funding to have interviews professionally transcribed. The final transcript should be in either a Word document or an .rtf Links to an external site. document.  

Professional Transcription

The IUPUI Arts and Humanities Institute uses Rev.com Links to an external site. to transcribe interviews professionally. Please check with the PI on procedures to process transcriptions, because accounts are tied to individuals.

AI Transcription 

If you are not on a grant-funded project, you may have to process transcriptions through an AI engine (e.g. Otter.ai Links to an external site.) and then follow up with transcribing by hand. You should follow the following format for transcriptions. 

It is very important that you follow this exact format. Doing so will make it easier for researchers to automate the analysis of the text. 

 

File Name:
subproject_project_lastnameinterviewee_firstnameinterviewee_item_year-mo-dy.rtf

Interviewee: [LastName, FirstName]

Interviewer(s): [LastName, FirstName]

Date: [YEAR-MO-DY]

Transcribed by: [Name of AI program], [LastName, FirstName]

Edited by: [LastName, FirstName]

Byline: This interview was recorded as part of The Covid 19 Oral History Project, a project of the IUPUI Arts and Humanities Institute associated with The Journal of a Plague Year: A Covid 19 Archive.  

[TimeStamp (if available)]

[LastName, FirstName (Interviewer)]:     

We are recording.

My name is [FIRSTNAME LASTNAME (Interviewer)]. I am here with [FIRSTNAME LASTNAME (Interviewee)]. The date is [DATE]. The time is [TIME]. We are in [LOCATION (if the interview is being done remotely, provide your location and the location of the interviewee)]...

Can I answer any questions?

[TimeStamp (if available)]

[LastName, FirstName (Interviewee)]:             

No. I understand.