My students interviewed their Vice-principal last Friday. However, since they are not yet proficient in spelling and taking notes, they were unable to record down key points mentioned by the vice-principal. After all, it must be a nerve-wracking experience having to talk to the Man himself.
To help them out, I recorded part of the interview on my iPhone.
For today’s lesson, the natural step would be to get them to transcribe the conversation. But that would be a nightmare because they would keep getting stuck and not knowing how to proceed further. I anticipate that I would have to do the lion’s share of the work. To be fair to them, there is a lot of interference as my Vice-principal sometimes asked them to respond to his questions, which upped the difficulty level of transcription.
Before I submitted myself to the gruelling task of transcribing, I decided to explore if I could find a speech-to-text app that could do the job for me.
Firstly, I sent the recording from my iPhone to WhatsApp.
Next, I needed to convert the format of my recording from AAC to WAV. That’s because the speech-to-text app I was eyeing only accepts WAV files.
Having overcome this hurdle, I uploaded my interview WAV file on the website, but to no avail. Turned out that it was too big. Undeterred, I immediately sourced for a WAV compressor website and did the needful. Finally, I trimmed my bulky file down to an appropriate size.
I enthusiastically uploaded it to TurboScribe. I waited with bated breath. Despite being in an air-conditioned room, I felt my body heat rising.
Before long, a transcript was unraveled in front of my eyes. I could even export it in the form of a PDF or Word document.
I heaved a huge sigh of relief. Now, my students could focus on the more value-added work of analysing my vice-principal’s responses and representing them in continuous prose.
Happy to learn something new today!
Haha
You should have had them transcribe one of the questions and answers as a class.
Maybe make a word scramble out of it, kids like that.
At least you didnt have to use a bunch of time transcribing it!
They are really not very good. I have to come up with posters like this:
https://m.stacker.news/42235
This is how rudimentary their English is.
Turbo scribe is relatively new?
I have no idea. I tried Google Cloud first. When it didn’t work for whatever reason, I Googled again n found Turbo haha
https://www.read.ai/
for meetings
Interesting.
When I was teaching, I was encouraged to use some games.
I cant remember which sites we used, but I used quite a bit.