A record of my conversation with Seattle artist and self-taught cosmologist Dennis Evans about his life, thought and his 50-year retrospective show in Salem, Oregon.
I really enjoyed reading this and look forward to the second part. I love voices like this; self-taught or just knowing what they want to do. So, please know the content here is great! I do have a technical question--you mentioned AI transcription. Was that fromn audio to text? What did you use? (I'm curious because I'm thinking about a project that involves students who are incarcerated.)
Chuck, thanks so much, this one has been so much fun to work on. So, I have the "Voice Recorder & Audio Editor" by TapMedia Ltd. from the App Store for an iPhone. It's the second one that appears when you search for "voice recorder," and the icon looks like a circa-1980s tape recorder cassette. Pretty reliable; actually editing (for print) the transcript is, of course, a tedious process that involves listening to it and using the text provided. I've never felt the need to use anything else. For telephone interviews, I use TapeACall, which is also excellent, although that's now an $80/year subscription. Worth it, in my view: I'm not as fast taking notes as I used to be, and both these let me focus exclusively on listening to the person. And I just love knowing that I can get the quote absolutely accurate. P.S. Because I'm still something of a tech idiot, I've yet to understand how to use TapeACall to record *incoming* calls. It has that capacity, but I don't get it. When someone calls I need to record, I just ask them to let me call them back.
I really enjoyed reading this and look forward to the second part. I love voices like this; self-taught or just knowing what they want to do. So, please know the content here is great! I do have a technical question--you mentioned AI transcription. Was that fromn audio to text? What did you use? (I'm curious because I'm thinking about a project that involves students who are incarcerated.)
Chuck, thanks so much, this one has been so much fun to work on. So, I have the "Voice Recorder & Audio Editor" by TapMedia Ltd. from the App Store for an iPhone. It's the second one that appears when you search for "voice recorder," and the icon looks like a circa-1980s tape recorder cassette. Pretty reliable; actually editing (for print) the transcript is, of course, a tedious process that involves listening to it and using the text provided. I've never felt the need to use anything else. For telephone interviews, I use TapeACall, which is also excellent, although that's now an $80/year subscription. Worth it, in my view: I'm not as fast taking notes as I used to be, and both these let me focus exclusively on listening to the person. And I just love knowing that I can get the quote absolutely accurate. P.S. Because I'm still something of a tech idiot, I've yet to understand how to use TapeACall to record *incoming* calls. It has that capacity, but I don't get it. When someone calls I need to record, I just ask them to let me call them back.
Thanks so much for this. More importantly, looking forward to the second half of this interview.