We need help transcribing the audio recordings of Culadasa’s talks. Transcribing is creating a word-for-word document from an audio file. You don’t need anything except your computer.

If you can help, contact us by adding a comment to this post. You can tell us which talk you would like to transcribe, or we can give you one. Don’t start until you contact us, as we need to make sure you aren’t working on the same file as someone else.

How to transcribe

Transcribing can be tricky since you have to do two things at once – control the audio playback, and type up the document. If you are using an audio player program on your computer, It helps if the player:

• takes up only a tiny bit of real estate on your screen
• stays “in front” of your word processing screen
• Uses “hot keys” to stop and start, so you don’t have to move your cursor off of your document.

For these reasons, we suggest you download and try Express Scribe to play the audio. (It’s free!)

More “how to” details and ideas:

• First, download the audio file to your computer.
• Use any common editing software
• Don’t try to make the transcript grammatically correct, that will happen in a subsequent step.
• Use the marks: (??) and (1:34). This indicates words or phrases you aren’t sure of and the elapsed time where it occurs.
• We are experimenting with voice recognition software (such as Dragon Naturally Speaking), and you can, too. There at least 2 ways to do this:
  • Use Express Scribe’s built in capability to feed the audio file through the voice recognition software.
  • Listen to the original audio and repeat what you hear into a microphone that feeds the voice recognition software.
• Professional transcribers use a foot pedal to control the audio. If you have one, Express Scribe will work with it.

Thank you!

Many people find the Q&A format to be useful. Please help us add to this collection. You can do this by letting us know of a question and answer (or just an answer!) in any of Culadasa’s audio files that you’ve found particularly meaningful. Just identify the file and the start and stop points for the except. We will add your suggestion to the Q&A collection.

Please create a comment to this post containing your suggestion.

Thanks!

Volunteers Needed for Service – Help Master Culadasa spread the Dharma

1. Transcription – Taking Culadasa’s verbal teaching and putting them in a document, verbatim, so people can then read and download them online. Please see our Transcription Project.

2. Create Podcasts  – Listening to the verbal Q&A teachings in MP3 format and determining where they should be cut to make a short, 10-15 minute stand alone teaching.  These shorter teachings will then be uploaded to the internet where they can be more easily accessed by question. There’s more information here.

3.Graphic Design – Help to design the overlook of a website for Culadasa and any printed materials.

4.Web master – Someone to help build Culadasa’s website using WordPress (blog) and either maintain it or train someone else to take it over.   A blank wordpress is already on a server awaiting…

5.Web savvy persons – Someone to upload podcasts to i-tunes, youtube, and chapters from Culadasa’s writing, book and yahoo “jhana insight” discussion group

6.Office assistant – someone with to help organize outlook, assist with facebook and other various office tasks.

Any help of any kind is greatly appreciated and needed.  Please contact us if you want to help in any way.

nyates@vtc.net, 520.826-4141 or 826-1421, Nancy