The E-Sylum:  Volume 9, Number 41, October 8, 2006, Article 26

VOICE TRANSCRIPTION SOFTWARE FOR NUMISMATIC ORAL HISTORIES

Last week Dick Johnson gave us several hints on performing
numismatic oral histories.  He wrote: "For me it takes 40 hours
to transcribe an hour of tape. I know. I am slow. (That $3,000
computer hardware and software that immediately puts the text
on your computer screen and records it as each party speaks seems
more desirable all the time.)"

Arthur Shippee writes: "Let's see, forty hours per hour interview.
Ten interviews requiring four hundred hours.  Is your time worth
$8 per hour?  That's $3200.  $3000 is sounding cheaper all the
time."

  Wayne Homren, Editor

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