How do people do this?

[jethrien]

I'm trying to transcribe an interview I filmed with a curator. I'm going nuts, and it's taking forever. I guess the real problem is that I type a little slower than he talks, so I keep having to pause the video every couple seconds and catch the typing up. So. Boring. And it really makes me hyper-aware of how long people can talk for, and how many filler syllables get thrown in. (And he's unusually good at this, too - I've transcribed much worse.)

Oh god, I'm at 33:40, and the bar isn't even 2/3 of the way through yet...

Comments

[chuckro.livejournal.com]

I actually knew this--In one of my classes senior year, there was a guy who was severely hearing-impaired, so he actually had a stenographer come to the lectures and transcribe them so he could read them off a laptop while the professor spoke. I ended up sitting behind him fairly often, because I found the subtitles really helpful, myself.