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+Using the Mel Gussow Interview Recordings, students will identify an interview of interest of no less than an hour in length for which they will create a brief description and a transcript with annotations. These materials will be used to create pages for a selection of interviews as an AVAnnotate project.
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+Students will:
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+Identify a recording of interest, provide a link to the MP3, a citation, and a brief, one paragraph description of what’s on it. These descriptions can come from the metadata about the recording at Ransom Center. 
+Provide a spreadsheet (Google, Excel, or Numbers) with the following columns:
+Start time
+End time
+Annotations including an accurate transcript, separated by speaker and/or by a “natural” break in ideas depending on the nature of the recording and notes.
+Tags including speaker names (e.g., “Mel Gussow | Transcript”) and topics (e.g., Home Life | Notes).
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+Other resources for creating transcripts.
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+ A Google Colab Notebook for creating transcripts using Whisper AI. 
+Select the "Open in Colab" button which will go the user's Google Drive and open a Colab window.
+In the notebook, insert information about the file to be transcribed and the result file. (E.g., put the URL to the file or YouTube Video to be transcribed, select file type (.tsv, etc.), and "Download.")
+In the Colab menu, select "Runtime" and "Run All."
+ If "Download" has been selected, a dialog window will open prompting the user to download the transcript file when the transcription has been completed, .
+How to merge cells in Google Spreadsheets if a speaker's comments comprises multiple cells: 
+Select a new cell in Column D next to the "first cell" in Column C of a speaker's comments.
+Type =concatenate(A1," ",A2," ",A3) replacing A1, A2, and A3 with your desired cell numbers separated by a space " "
+Copy the concatenated data in Column D.
+To paste the concatenated data in Column C, select the "first cell", right-click and choose "Paste Special" and "Value Only."
+Update the timestamps, keeping the Start time associated with the "first cell" and the End time associated with the last cell of the concatenated cells. Keep the extra rows until you have confirmed the speaker names.
+Create a new Column E called Tags. Include the speaker name and a transcript tag separated by a pipe (Tanya Clement | Transcript)
+Listen to the recording in areas where you are not sure who is speaking. Update the speaker names.
+Delete the extra rows, keeping the updated "first cell" of the concatenated rows.
+Delete the extra Column D. "Tags" will become the new Column D. 
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