Re: Interview data handling technique

From: Wolff-Michael Roth (mroth@uvic.ca)
Date: Tue Dec 26 2000 - 14:04:10 PST


Bill can you provide some source information on the program if
someone wants to purchase/get it? Michael

>Have been spending some time working some audio taped interviews.
>It turns out that a nice program on the macintosh called "Peak"
>allows you to record and process audio digitally (in aiff format).
>At this moment I have 3 hours of interviews on a cartridge drive.
>(30 minutes takes approximately 78 Mb) After digital encoding, they
>are being segmented into files of approximately 3- 5 minutes each
>according to the topic questions of the discourse -- segmenting
>facilitates quick access to any particular portion of the interview.
>The visual display of sound makes it easy to locate breaks in the
>discourse for segmenting. "Peak" also allows digital signal
>processing, improving the quality of the audio.
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>With a little more work the data will be re-encoded into mp3 format
>and then burned to a master cd (up to 11 hours will fit on a cd).
>Then standard audio cd's will be burned -- one for each interview.
>The file segments become audio tracks, facilitating the navigation
>across the interview, and making it available on any cd player,
>including the computer's.
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>I have not tried the following yet -- but once the audio is encoded
>digitally, I envision that collaborators can share audio data using
>Napster. Napster has a search function that will find files by
>names/artists and selective naming should make it easy to locate
>data. data can then be shared through direct transfers.
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>--
>Bill Barowy, Associate Professor
>Lesley University
>29 Everett Street, Cambridge, MA 02138-2790
>Phone: 617-349-8168 / Fax: 617-349-8169
>http://www.lesley.edu/faculty/wbarowy/Barowy.html
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