Comments on: Transcriva makes transcribing (almost) fun

By: Danie

Danie — Fri, 01 Jul 2011 19:04:39 +0000

Oh, boy. You better save your work constantly. Transcriva crashed on me when I was about to finish and hour-long interview. I did not save, I was in a rush… Great program, but that’s the most annoying bug I’ve ever experienced in my career.

By: DJ

DJ — Sun, 19 Mar 2006 13:46:33 +0000

One minor problem with Transcriva is that the current version (1.0.6 as of 19-Mar-06) still has some elusive bugs, and some new users might get turned off by having the software crash while beginning to transcribe when adding a “New Speaker” to an interview and also in some other cases.

Here are the steps you can follow to avoid crashing, and hopefull this is fixed in a future release:

When starting to transcribe, follow these steps in this exact order: (1) create a new document, (2) “Import Audio Clip”, (3) “Add Speaker” from the menu bar (4) add additional speakers from the menu bar if you need them (5) Add a “New Entry”.

If you follow these steps in this order, you can avoid the crashing. It’s also a good idea, do a “Save” (Commnnd-S) often… Other than that, Transcriva provides a very nice interface for transcription, it’s has speeded up my work tremendously.

By: Oskar

Oskar — Thu, 09 Mar 2006 10:32:17 +0000

Awesome product. So glad I supported Apple in the old days so they could enable RAD stuff like this. Look at where they are now. Warm. Fuzzy. Feeling :)

By: david

david — Wed, 08 Mar 2006 19:00:56 +0000

The developer tells me he gets the request for video support a lot and is considering adding this to a future release of Transcriva.

By: Randolfe Wicker

Randolfe Wicker — Sun, 19 Feb 2006 19:12:09 +0000

This sounds like a great program. In my years as a working writer who did a lot of interviews, it would have been a great help.

However, I find video is so much more comprehensive (a single picture is indeed worth a thousand words) that I doubt I’ll ever go back to writing.