Re: Summer Research; Webinars and Chats; Online Training; Around the World with Dr. Hesse-Biber; Automatic transcription.... from Researchware, Developers of HyperRESEARCH™ and HyperTRANSCRIBE™: Simply Powerful Tools for Qualitative Research
Through the end of May, Researchware is offering special promotional "bundles" for research teams that include licenses for both HyperTRANSCRIBE™ and HyperRESEARCH™ — as well as live, personalized online training for your team members!
Researchware's tools are easy to use, allowing you to spend your time on your research rather than learning software.
Since summer research projects have strict deadlines, we're offering personalized online training to jumpstart your team's use of our software. In addition to the private online meeting, every member of your team will have full access to our Technical Support team via email and phone.
Learn more about research bundles for 3, 4, or 5 researchers.
Need more info or a different deal? Contact Ann Dupuis to discuss additional options.
Researchware Staff will be hosting a series of scheduled webinars and on-line chat sessions on the Researchware.com website. Webinars are scheduled on a variety of training topics for our software. Researchware's live chats make key Researchware staff available to answer any questions you may have about our software, to discuss the latest trends in qualitative data analysis, or just to say "Hi!"
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New events are always being planned, so always check our Events Calendar for the latest events and for event descriptions, registration, and schedule changes.
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Eighth International Congress of Qualitative Inquiry (ICQI), University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, US, May 16 - May 19, 2012:
Researchware cofounder Dr. Sharlene Hesse-Biber will be attending the ICQI and would be happy to answer any questions you may have about Researchware's Simply Powerful Tools for Qualitative Research. Dr. Hesse-Biber is a member of the External Advisory Board for the ICQI and a member of the Pre-Coference Organization for Mixed Methods (along with John Creswell and Burke Johnson). Please feel free to catch her before or after her many events.
Read more: "Day in Mixed Methods," "Mixed and Emergent Methods Workshop," "Debating the Digital Future of Qualitative Research: The Handbook of Emergent Technologies in Social Research"
The Psychology of Women Section (POWS) of the British Phychological Society's three-day Annual Conference, Cumberland Lodge, Windsor, UK, July 11th - July 13th 2012:
Dr. Hesse-Biber is one of three distinguished keynote speakers. She will be speaking on Applying Feminist Principles of Praxis to Interrogate Austerity Policies and their Impact on Women's Lived Experiences and would be happy to meet with people interested in learning more about Researchware's Simply Powerful Tools for Qualitative Research throughout the conference.
Read more: Themes and Topics at the POWS Conference
The Qualitative Report's Fourth Annual Conference, Fort Lauderdale, Florida, US, January 18 - 19, 2013:
Researchware cofounder, Dr. Sharlene Hesse-Biber, is to be the keynote speaker at The Qualitative Report's Fourth Annual Conference, January 18 - 19, 2013. The conference, sponsored by the Graduate School of Humanities and Social Sciences of Nova Southeastern University in Fort Lauderdale, Florida USA, explores the theme of "Qualitative Research and Technology". As the inspiration behind Researchware's Simply Powerful Tools for Qualitative Research and editor of the Handbook of Emergent Technologies in Social Research (Oxford University Press, 2011), among many other publications, Dr. Hesse-Biber is a leader in the role of technology in qualitative research. Her Opening Plenary Address is sure to be informative and enlightening.
Learn more about this conference.
Researchware customers often request software that will automatically transcribe their audio or video files for them.
Unfortunately the technology to support speech recognition has not reached the point where automatic transcription of audio or video recordings can match, let alone surpass, the accuracy of (good) human transcriptions. Speech is incredibly complex, with variations in accents and enunciation as well as pitch and tone of voice, making it hard to match spoken words to written ones.
Commercially available voice recognition software, such as Nuance's "Dragon Naturally Speaking" software, generally works best if you "train" the software to a specific voice. Some researchers use Dragon Naturally Speaking to create transcripts by training it to their voice. They then listen to the audio they wish to transcribe and re-speak what they hear for the software to translate. There's a further step needed, however: proofreading the transcription and correcting any errors.
While our HyperTRANSCRIBE software isn't able to transcribe automagically, it does make manual transcription a lot easier.
HyperTRANSCRIBE lets you open and play most popular audio and video formats, and provides both graphical and keyboard control to play, pause, and loop playback so your hands never have to leave the keyboard. It allows fine tuning of the length of the loop and amount of overlap between loops, to fit with your typing speeds.
It also lets you choose exactly what you will and will not transcribe. Maybe you do want the "ums" and "uhs" and noting all the nuances in the speaker's tone of voice (e.g. <whisper>) in your transcription. Verbatim transcription offers valuable insight into the speaker's frame of mind and possile emotional state while speaking. This is especially true if the transcription includes notations indicating tone of voice, laughs or other non-verbal expressions, and similar information.
There's one major advantage to doing transcriptions yourself: you'll be much more familiar with your data after spending the time listening to your audio files while you transcribe.
Read more: Current state of text-to-speech software, obstacles to accuracy, how HyperTRANSCRIBE helps...
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