A free & open tool for transcribing audio interviews
oTranscribe
oTranscribe is a free web app designed to take the pain out of transcribing recorded interviews.
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Support this tool
oTranscribe was built by Elliot Bentley and is hosted and maintained by MuckRock Foundation. Your donations help us keep oTranscribe up and running. Consider making a donation today!
Download a copy
Although a web version is available, you can install oTranscribe anywhere by following these steps:
dist
folder to a server of your choice.Please note that, in Chrome, local copies oTranscribe may not run correctly due to the browser's privacy settings.
Compiling the CSS and JavaScript
The src
folder in this repository only includes the "raw" JavaScript and CSS. To compile the production-ready files:
npm install
to install dependenciesmake build_prod
to compile the dist
folderFor a sourcemap and 'watch-for-changes', run make build_dev
.
OTR file format
oTranscribe has its own file format (.otr), which is just a JSON file with the following parameters:
Running tests
oTranscribe is not fully tested. There are only a small number of tests, for data migration.
To setup, install CasperJS.
Then run a server at the root directory of this repository at http://localhost:8000
, and on the command line run:
casperjs test tests/
Translations
Translations have been provided by the following talented and generous volunteers:
More about translating oTranscribe on our wiki.
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