Transcribing Oral History Recordings Using the Transcription Portal
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2025
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Draxler, Christoph
Pömp, Julian
van den Heuvel, Henk
Ardolino, Fabio
van Hessen, Arjan
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The Transcription Portal is a web-based service for multilingual orthographic transcription of speech, notably Oral History interviews. It is targeted at non-technical users: it provides a simple and intuitive GUI, supports several languages, and the workflow is pre-configured. Currently, the workflow consists of three steps: 1) automatic speech recognition, 2) manual correction of the transcript, 3) data export. Summarization and translation are planned. We demonstrate the portal on a set of historical Italian interviews on the Ravensbrück concentration camps.
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multilingual speech recognition, Oral History, user interface, Software, Signal Processing, Language and Linguistics, Modelling and Simulation, Human-Computer Interaction
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Draxler, C, Pömp, J, van den Heuvel, H, Ardolino, F & van Hessen, A 2025, 'Transcribing Oral History Recordings Using the Transcription Portal', Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, INTERSPEECH, vol. 2025, pp. 300-301. < https://www.isca-archive.org/interspeech_2025/draxler25_interspeech.html# >