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Oral History Technology

Oral History Technology

This page is a companion piece to an article entitled "Brave New World: A Guide to Twenty-First Century Technology for Oral History," published in the 2017 edition of the Sound Historian. The links listed below, organized by section, mostly correspond to the italic text found in the article. Additional or alternative links will be provided over time as technology progresses. The hope is that this page will continue to be updated twice yearly so that recent trends can be fully represented. In general, please consider also consulting the wonderful resource website Oral History in the Digital Age (OHDA) for additional information and discussions on many of these topics. 

Digital Audio Recorders

Preferred brands: Tascam, & Zoom

Entry-level professional recorder - Tascam DR-40x

How-to guide for setting audio levels

Smartphones as Recorders

Smartphone microphone attachments for iPhone: Zoom iQ6/7, Rode IXYL, Shure MOTIV line

Quality smartphone recording applications (iOS): ShurePlus MOTIV, & Voice Record Pro

Quality smartphone recording applications (Android): ShurePlus MOTIV, & Voice Recorder Pro

Long Distance Recording

AUDIO

Lists of call recording apps for iOS/Android

List of telephone audio interfaces

JK Audio QuickTap (landline)

JK Audio CellTap (cellular)

Olympus Telephone Recording Device (for recording cell phone calls externally)

VIDEO

Top Rated Webcams

Screen Recorder for Mac - Quicktime

Screen Recorder for PC - Game Bar (for Windows 10+)

FreeConferenceCall.com - for WAV audio telephone calls or MP4 video conference calls

Skype recording instructions (automatic cloud-based recording now natively available in the app)

Zoom recording instructions (local for all, cloud-based for licensed accounts) 

Facetime recording instructions (uses Quicktime screen recording on Macs)

Microphones

Blue line of PC/podcasting microphone options

Cardioid Options - Audio-Technica ATR2100x (entry) & Shure SM7B (studio)

Shotgun Option - Rode NTG-2

Digital Preservation

BUIOH cost schedule/time commitment breakdown

Digital File Management

BWF Metaedit

MetaX (Now supported as MetaZ)

Article on File Fixity

Fastsum

CheckSum+

Short-Term Digital Storage

Cloud Storage: Box, Dropbox, & Google Drive

Long-Term Digital Storage

Cold Storage: Amazon Glacier & Backblaze

Digital Processing

Audio-Visual Editing Software

Audacity

Adobe Audition

Wavelab

iZotope RX 10

Microsoft Photos Legacy - Windows-based movie editors have come and gone many times in recent years. This product is the one I use currently as a light editor for PC. 

iMovie

Adobe Premiere Pro

Final Cut Pro


Transcription Software

Foot pedals for transcription

FTW Transcriber

StartStop

Express Scribe

Dragon NaturallySpeaking - Oral History Review blogpost on this topic 

Trint

Whisper

Digital Tools for Access

Websites and Databases

Wordpress

Omeka

Curatescape

Waco History

PC Magazine's review of web hosting services

Online Content Hosting Options

YouTube

Vimeo

Soundcloud

The Oral History Metadata Synchronizer (OHMS)

Information and sign-up site

BUIOH's recent use of OHMS

Social Media

Facebook

Twitter

Instagram

Hootsuite

Waco History Facebook account

Waco, Texas History in Pictures Facebook group (requires you to be logged into Facebook)

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