Now Available : Automated Transcription
Adding Automated Transcription to Transana has been a goal of mine for two decades. This post discusses the capabilities and limitations of current speech-to-text technology as it applies to Transana.
Syncing Media Files Automatically
What do I recommend for the Video Sync Server? Unfortunately, the answer is that it depends on several factors that may be different in Turkey than they are where I live. Different universities and organizations have different rules. The “best” answer is different in different places and for different projects.
Collaboration in the time of COVID-19
There are many ways to share media files for collaborative analysis over a distance using Transana Multiuser. This post describes one such technique, using Google Drive.
Back Up Your Data!
Hard drives die. Disasters occur. Will you be able to recover your Transana data?
Writing Tools in Transana
There are two important ways I use Transana Professional’s writing tools when I am doing qualitative analysis. Creating Progress Logs. These are useful in tracking what I’ve done and where I’m headed. In Transana Multiuser they are also great for asynchronous...
Transcribing Overlapping Speech
My first thought as I watched the first U.S. Presidential debate of 2020 was "Oh, those poor transcribers." I recognized the huge challenge this would present for transcribers, with constant interruptions and so much overlapping speech. I knew it would strain a...
Introducing TransanaSCRIBE – Transcription-Only Software
We have launched TransanaSCRIBE, an upgrade of Transana's tools for fast, accurate transcription of audio or video, as a stand-alone transcription product. Academic researchers, journalists, attorneys, podcasters, local governments, market researchers and...
Transana and MacOS Catalina
Apple recently released MacOS 10.15, known as Catalina, and made major changes to the way MacOS works "under the hood." While there was plenty of advanced notice about the changes, the scale of the changes needed means that many smaller software developers, including...