Q: What happens to their licence if a student has an annual licence, then leaves the institution? Can they be re-allocated?Ī: Transcription seats can’t be reallocated, and this is unlikely to change. Q: An institution places their order, receives the licence codes, what happens then? How do the licences get allocated to the students, how do the students access the licences?Ī: Transcription is activated purely on email address so QSR need the email address of the people signing up for it Some more information about Transcription QSR consider it extremely unlikely that any user, over the course of one year and with normal academic or administrative use, will come anywhere near the limit, they anticipate most users will not even receive the 75% notification within a year.įind out more about NVivo Transcription here. If Licensee expects to exceed allowance additional seats may be purchased to generate new allowance. Instead, QSR employ a 'Fair Use' policy, whereby the System will send notifications when Licensee has consumed 75% / 95% / 100% of allowance. The licence, as acquired through Chest, does not have a specific limit on amount of hours of use.
NVivo Transcription is a simple, cost-effective solution that offers the latest in automation technology to provide verbatim transcription. Others may enlist the help of a research assistant which can be an overwhelming, time-consuming and expensive task. Here's a web tool (untested by me) that claims to "convert automated transcripts generated by Zoom or Microsoft Teams to NVivo format, with options to make coding easier.Licensor: QSR International (UK) Ltd, registered in England and Wales (company number 6906225), The Innovation Centre, Sci-Tech Daresbury, Keckwick Lane, Daresbury, Cheshire WA4 4FSĦ0% of NVivo users are spending hours manually completing their own transcription, taking vital time away from data analysis and core research. If you really want to dive in to a comparison of the accuracy of transcription services, you could start here. If you ever need to compress or extract just audio from a video file, Handbrake is a good option. Rev is also recommended by the Taylor Institute. Here's a human transcription service that one researcher I worked with swears by. $30/hour USD (cheaper if you buy 5 or 10 hours)Įnglish only, 50% education discount should you upgradeįree (or not, depending on speech-to-text choice)įree with 365 subscription (5 hour limit/month for uploaded audio files) Must choose this option before recording. Automated Transcription Services Providerįree (Included with U of C Zoom account).Įnglish only. Here's a short, incomplete list of automated transcription services, along with costs, links to confidentiality agreements, and other considerations. Otter.ai and Rev.com have reportedly been cleared by IT for Level 2 data. If you're asking someone else, human or machine, to perform a transcription, do pay attention to confidentiality. If these are important to your analysis, be sure to also pay attention to the original source files.
Note that things you may lose in a transcription include any emotion, pauses, inflection, etc. Automated transcription is getting better all the time, and with a clean noise-free recording you should be able to expect at least 90% accuracy, and likely much better.
Manual transcription is usually more expensive, but is also usually more accurate, especially if the recording is at all noisy. Transcription can be manual (done by a human) or automated (done by a machine). While NVivo allows you to work directly with audio or video files, most people find it much easier to work from a transcription.