Disrupting Transcription – How Automation is Transforming a Foundational Research Method
Discusses the challenges of traditional transcription methods, which are time-consuming and labor-intensive. Automated transcription tools are becoming more popular. These tools can save researchers time and effort. However, there are still concerns about the accuracy of these tools.
The Voice Transcription Technique: Use of Voice Recognition Software to Transcribe Digital Interview Data in Qualitative Research
Transcribing interview data is a time-consuming task that most qualitative researchers dislike. Transcribing is even more difficult for people with physical limitations because traditional transcribing requires manual dexterity and the ability to sit at a computer for long stretches of time.
Qualitative Data Collection in an Era of Social Distancing
In this article, we describe options and resources for researchers who find themselves needing to alter their study designs from face-to-face qualitative data collection to a “socially distant” method.
Conducting Qualitative Interviews and Focus Groups Online
Tips for conducting online interviews and focus groups for qualitative research. It discusses the challenges of moving qualitative research online due to COVID-19 and offers recommendations for video conferencing platforms and recording software.
Using Zoom Videoconferencing for Qualitative Data Collection: Perceptions and Experiences of Researchers and Participants
Advances in communication technologies offer new opportunities for the conduct of qualitative research. Among these, Zoom—an innovative videoconferencing platform—has a number of unique features that enhance its potential appeal to qualitative and mixed-methods researchers.
Interviewing and Surveying Over the Phone: A Reflexive Account of a Research on Parenting
This paper is on the role that the phone plays in a mixed-methods empirical research.
How to Record Calls on Your Smartphone
Learn how to use software or gadgets to record calls on Android or iPhone.
It’s Good to Talk: Performing and Recording the Telephone Interview
This paper explores the transition of talk to text in the process of performing and recording semi-structured interviews over the telephone.