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...

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[jethrien.livejournal.com]

I do quite well at note-taking. But yes, it's amazing how much of most people's speech is either filler or circular. It's not so hard to get the gist of what they're saying down. But with this, I'm trying to get word-for-word, with frequent timestamps so we can go back and edit.