Thoughts on Transcription
December 11th, 2007 by Roo ReynoldsI just noticed that the You and Yours transcripts seem to have stopped being produced some time in early October. Perhaps Steve’s discovery about transcriptions for Analysis being cancelled applies more universally across the BBC. If so, that’s a shame.
If the BBC are not going to provide transcripts, maybe the internets can. We could always start running the MP3s through a transcription service like CastingWords, though since this one show would have cost $130, $78 or $39, depending on whether we wanted a 1 day, 6 day or one month(ish) service, I’d like to find another way.
Maybe there’s a space for a volunteer army of transcribers? Perhaps Speechification should host a wiki and anyone who wants to can help out. Maybe you don’t care about transcriptions. What do you think, gentle reader/listener?
