Dr. Silvana di Gregorio: Chapter 6 • Voice to Text: Automating Transcription
Channel: The After The Interview Project Data Analysis
Date: 31/03/2021

Dr. Silvana di Gregorio: Author of Chapter 6 • Voice to Text: Automating Transcription • Analyzing and Interpreting Qualitative Research: After the Interview

Dr. di Gregorio discusses how her chapter helps qualitative researchers seize opportunities provided by automatic transcription systems and transform what had been a mind-numbing task into a major step in the analysis. The chapter begins with a literature review that describes the development of automated transcription tools and discusses how contemporary automated transcription systems change voice to text. Dr. di Gregorio argues automatic systems liberate transcription from a mechanical practice, where researchers struggle to “get the words down,” to a fluid step in the interpretive journey.

Dr. di Gregorio argues the tools provided by automated transcription systems allow researchers to change the sequencing and flow of their interpretive work. High quality transcription systems provide a raw transcript in half the time it took to record the interview. Researchers may immediately engage with this material and, for example, note participants’ gestures and tones of voice directly on the transcript. This fluidity allows researchers to revise their interview instruments, immediately after the first interview, and quickly query respondents about the transcribed text. 

Dr. di Gregorio’s Bio
Silvana di Gregorio, PhD, is Research Director at QSR International, the developers of NVivo. She is a sociologist and a former academic. She has been training, consulting, and publishing about qualitative data analysis software since 1995. For 16 years, she had her own training/consultancy business—SdG Associates. She is author of "Using Web 2.0 Tools for Qualitative Analysis" and coauthor with Judith Davidson of "Qualitative Research Design for Software Users" and "Qualitative Research and Technology: In the Midst of a Revolution," and coauthor with Linda Gilbert and Kristi Jackson of "Tools for Qualitative Analysis."

Dr. di Gregorio is on twitter at https://twitter.com/silvanagregorio?lang=en
Dr. di Gregorio is a regular contributor to NVIVO’s blog https://www.qsrinternational.com/nvivo-qualitative-data-analysis-software/resources/blog

Analyzing and Interpreting Qualitative Research: After the Interview
Table of Contents 

Introduction—Charles Vanover, Paul Mihas, and Johnny Saldaña 
Chapter 1 • As a Qualitative Study Unfolds: Shifts in Design and Analysis—Gerardo L. Blanco and
Gretchen B. Rossman 
Chapter 2 • Using Qualitative Data Analysis Software to Manage the Research Process—Jessica
N. Lester and Trena M. Paulus 
Chapter 3 • After Someone Else’s Interview—Sheryl L. Chatfield 
Chapter 4 • Transcription as a Form of Qualitative Inquiry—Charles Vanover 
Chapter 5 • Theories and Practices of Transcription From Discourse Analysis—Mariaelena Bartesaghi 
Chapter 6 • Voice to Text: Automating Transcription—Silvana di Gregorio 
Chapter 7 • Coding System Design and Management—Daniel Turner 
Chapter 8 • Deductive and Inductive Approaches to Qualitative Data Analysis—Andrea J. Bingham and Patricia Witkowsky 
Chapter 9 • Coding, Categorizing, and Theming the Data: A Reflexive Search for Meaning—Janet C. Richards 
Chapter 10 • Oral Coding: An Alternative Way to Make Sense of Interview Data—James A. Bernauer 
Chapter 11 • Mapping Trajectories: Analyzing Focus Group Data Rhizomatically—Alyson Welker and George Kamberelis 
Chapter 12 • Analyzing and Coding Interviews and Focus Groups Considering Cross-Cultural and Cross-Language Data—Elsa M. Gonzalez and Yvonna S. Lincoln
Chapter 13 • On Being a Researcher-Participant: Challenges With the Iterative Process of Data Production, Analysis, and (Re)Production—Craig M. McGill, Drew Puroway, and Mark Duslak 
Chapter 14 • Memo Writing Strategies: Analyzing the Parts and the Whole—Paul Mihas 
Chapter 15 • Critical Analytic Memoing—Elaine Keane 
Chapter 16 • Listening Deeply: Indexing Research Conversations in a Narrative Inquiry—Jaime L. Fiddler 
Chapter 17 • Emergent Analysis: Strategies for Making Sense of an Evolving Longitudinal Study—Adrian Larbi-Cherif, Cori Egan, Joshua L. Glazer 
Chapter 18 • Making Claims Using Qualitative Data—Tim Huffman 
Chapter 19 • Dramatizing Interviews—Johnny Saldaña 
Chapter 20 • What Makes an Effective Teacher? Revealing Good Teaching Practice Through Interview Poetic Transcription—Robyn Shenfield and Monica Prendergast
Chapter 21 • Embedding Critical, Creative, and Contemplative Data Analysis in Interview Studies—Kakali Bhattacharya 
Chapter 22 • Follow the Headlights: On Comics-Based Data Analysis—Sally Campbell Galman 
Chapter 23 • Turning Transcripts Into Stories—Aishath Nasheeda, Haslinda Binti Abdullah, Steven Eric Krauss, Nobaya Binti Ahmed 
Chapter 24 • Writing for a Broad Audience: Concept Papers, Blogs, and OpEds—Jessica Smartt Gullion 
Chapter 25 • Sophie’s Choices: The Social Act of Publishing a Qualitative Study—Mitchell Allen