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OHMS

OHMS: Enhancing Access to Oral History for Free by Doug Boyd Since finding a home in digitized, networked archives, oral history has grown as a resource for historical and cultural documentation by both academic as well as community scholars. Yet it still remains underutilized. Why? Because oral history can be a cumbersome resource to use, …

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Automatic Speech Recognition

Can Automatic Speech Recognition Replace Manual Transcription? by Doug Oard, University of Maryland, College Park We’ve all heard of systems like Apple’s Siri that can automatically recognize what we say and wondered whether we might use this “Automatic Speech Recognition” (ASR) technology to replace the tedious process of manually transcribing oral history interviews.  As with …

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Transcribing Oral History in the Digital Age

Transcribing Oral History in the Digital Age by Linda Shopes Background   Transcribing, that is, representing in print that which has been spoken, has long been established as one of oral history’s best practices. Transcribing is related to oral history’s origins and development as an archival practice with the goal creating documents for future use …

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