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Text mining & text analysis

This guide contains resources for researchers about text mining and text analysis (sometimes known as distant reading).

Transcription of audio/video data

Transcription of verbal and non-verbal social interactions is a central feature in many areas of research, and can be very labour intensive and time consuming. Automated transcription tools and services utilising the latest developments in AI and speech recognition are now available, and can speed up the transcription process.

The following blog posts provide an overview of transcription for research, some of the tools available, and the challenges inherent in automated transcription processes.

Transcription: More than just words

Disrupting transcription – How automation is transforming a foundational research method