A researcher’s experiences with Audio Notetaker

H is a researcher who records interviews and focus groups using a digital recorder. She was interested in using Audio Notetaker to help with transcribing notes for these recordings. Here are some of her comments on using Audio Notetaker to support this task:

"Transcribing is a time-consuming and tiresome task. Audio Notetaker made it much more manageable, quicker and more interesting – I certainly engaged with the recording far more than I would otherwise have done."

"Being able to transcribe in the same program was a real bonus, and made the task much easier than usual while keyboard short cuts for playing and pausing recordings made the process of transcribing much quicker."

H found the tools for breaking recordings into section and highlighting key points particularly useful:

"Highlighting text and the corresponding audio recording was a real bonus for locating specific points; and creating new sections for both the recording and the transcription really helped to navigate and complete the transcription. It was excellent for monitoring progress – transcribing is a time-consuming chore, and it really helped to keep me motivated."

"This is a great piece of software and incredibly easy to use. All in all I enjoyed working with this - thank you!"