Friday, February 15, 2008
Halfway through my 5-months project, something triggered me - Will I be able to cope with the tedious process of transcribing the interviews that I have done, what more with transcribing an interview with a translator in it when I'm in the journalism field in the future (if I become a journalist that is) ?Well, I have no answer to that at the moment because I'm in the midst of transcribing the interview that I had with an elderly who speaks the Teo-Chew dialect, but luckily for me, I had a translator with me during the interview, so it's not that bad after all, but the only thing is that I have to seriously transcribe everything word for word (including the OKs and hmm, etc.) Very tedious for someone who is new at transcription like me. And not to mention, the interview lasted for more than an hour, ok? So, imagine how long I would take to listen to the interview repeatedly and transcribe everything... Sigh. Someone, help!
A snapshot during the interview with the elderly for my project.
"I shouldn't have known you - you're the distraction for now." -[theBARRACUDA]-
[theBARRACUDA] slept soundly at 1:53 PM
