Greetings, members of OCRA. My name is Chad Iwertz, and I am a PhD student at Ohio State University researching the writing habits and practices of speech-to-text providers and CART providers. I have been studying transcription methods for six years, and for my dissertation work at OSU I have been primarily working with the Association of Transcribers and Speech-to-Text Providers to better understand the methodological practices of different forms of transcription.
At this point, however, my research is significantly underrepresenting verbatim forms of transcription. I am writing to you today (thanks to the support of the OCRA Board of Directors!) to invite you to participate in this research by sharing your experience as a CART provider in a short (less than 10 minutes to complete) questionnaire.
Your participation in this study is so appreciated: As far as I have found there is no similar work being done to understand the composing practices and methods transcribers from a variety of backgrounds employ to produce quality transcripts.
You can access the short survey here: http://go.osu.edu/speech2text
You may be asking why I became interested in transcription - what made me start studying captioning and the transcribing process?