Re: Anyone like to transcripti WOWODC podcasts via Mechanical Turk?

2012-07-18 Thread Johan Henselmans
On 13-jul.-2012, at 12:55, Ted Archibald wrote:You can use MTurk by using crowdflower.com outside the US. I'm in Canada and I use WO app that submits jobs and pulls data from MTurk via crowdflower. I highly suggest it. It makes MTurk far easier to use as well. Sorry for the late reply, I got….

Anyone like to transcripti WOWODC podcasts via Mechanical Turk?

2012-07-13 Thread Johan Henselmans
Last week, I have done some experiments with transcribing podcasts, as it seemed a good idea to make information in the podcasts more accessible. (I do not like scrolling through podcasts of an hour of which I can read the transcript in 15 minutes). I have tried Mac Speech Scribe with a

Re: Anyone like to transcripti WOWODC podcasts via Mechanical Turk?

2012-07-13 Thread Amy Worrall
On Fri, Jul 13, 2012 at 9:11 AM, Johan Henselmans jo...@netsense.nl wrote: Some people reported having transcripts done this way. Unfortunately, I am not allowed to use this tool, as I am not a citizen of the US of A. I've used it (from Britain) via those companies that offer a service where

Re: Anyone like to transcripti WOWODC podcasts via Mechanical Turk?

2012-07-13 Thread Ted Archibald
You can use MTurk by using crowdflower.com outside the US. I'm in Canada and I use WO app that submits jobs and pulls data from MTurk via crowdflower. I highly suggest it. It makes MTurk far easier to use as well. That being said, wouldn't it be easier just to shoot the files to a