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

[towk.livejournal.com]

I'm doing a lot of nitty-gritty video and sound editing for my company, so I know a lot of hacker tools for working with those sorts of files.

It's actually possible to extract the audio and slow it down by whatever ratio you want, using some free software such as

http://www.surina.net/soundtouch/

The technical details are tricky. If this is something you'll be doing often, I could help. :)

[jethrien.livejournal.com]

Again, I'm only doing this two or three times a year - I suspect it would actually be faster to just finish rather than try to muck around with a technical solution.