Tuesday, November 5, 2013

oral history refection

I enjoyed the oral history project. the idea of having the history of the people of Houston saved for anyone to read was a cool idea to me. the stories the people we interviewed could of been lost if we did not do this. the best part was the actual interview, being able to hear someone's life story was a rare experience. the worst part was the transcribing, even though it gave details of the story, it was not as interesting listening to it for the 8th time because there it is hard to go back just 5 seconds in the recording. one thing i would change is about how we transcribed, if we had an app that was made to play audio so moving to different places in the recordings would be easier.

1 comment:

  1. I am so glad that you really seem to understand the purpose of the Oral History Project - to record regular people's stories so that in the future, other people can know what regular people in Houston were like.

    As far as the technology is concerned, perhaps you could be in charge of finding a program or app that would make transcribing easier. Please keep me posted if you find something!

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