Oral History Support Services
We provide both audio and language services for oral history projects.
Oral history is all about the past; museum and academic research, professional memoirs, archived interviews, audio recordings of past family members, and other oral history projects are all a part of our society today. What we learn from the words of our predecessors can influence our culture and society now.
The problem is that time isn’t gentle with audio, and older audio formats can create issues with quality and tape integrity. That’s why at Textphonic Communications Inc., we offer a variety of oral history audio services designed specifically for those working on oral history projects – whether it’s a university project, professional oral compilations, or a family memoir.
Oral history is all about the past; museum and academic research, professional memoirs, archived interviews, audio recordings of past family members, and other oral history projects are all a part of our society today. What we learn from the words of our predecessors can influence our culture and society now.
The problem is that time isn’t gentle with audio, and older audio formats can create issues with quality and tape integrity. That’s why at Textphonic Communications Inc., we offer a variety of oral history audio services designed specifically for those working on oral history projects – whether it’s a university project, professional oral compilations, or a family memoir.
Oral History and Audio Transfer Services
With archived audio, you may be trying to recover interviews, memoirs, and other recordings from outdated formats such as old mini-cassettes, reel-to-reel tapes, 8-track tapes, and even old video formats.
To update your oral history project, we can transfer your audio off of dated masters and onto a new format of your choice, including digital files and audio CDs.
We can work with a large number of old and new audio and video formats. Click here to see the list.
With archived audio, you may be trying to recover interviews, memoirs, and other recordings from outdated formats such as old mini-cassettes, reel-to-reel tapes, 8-track tapes, and even old video formats.
To update your oral history project, we can transfer your audio off of dated masters and onto a new format of your choice, including digital files and audio CDs.
We can work with a large number of old and new audio and video formats. Click here to see the list.
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Oral History Transcription and Translation
If you need text versions of your oral histories, we can provide you with quality transcripts. We have the right professionals to handle Spanish, English, and bilingual recordings.
We don't stop at transcription though. If you have an oral history that was recorded in Spanish and would like it translated to English text, we have many experienced translators up to the task. We also have native Spanish-speaking translators who can translate from English to European or Latin American Spanish.
We can transcribe and translate from a large variety of audio and video formats, both analog and digital. You can securely upload .wav, .mp3, .avi, and many other digital audio and video formats. If you have physical media instead such as old tapes, MiniDiscs, CDs, or DVDs, you can ship them to us via UPS, FedEx, or USPS.
Marginally Intelligible Oral Histories
Sometimes recorded speech may be difficult to understand. A person may be speaking quietly or be too distant from the microphone and other times may have a speech impediment, have a foreign accent, or be speaking too excitedly. The problem may also be overlapping speech from multiple speakers or background noises such as traffic. Our world-class forensic linguists have spent years learning to decode and then transcribe or translate such difficult speech.
If you need text versions of your oral histories, we can provide you with quality transcripts. We have the right professionals to handle Spanish, English, and bilingual recordings.
We don't stop at transcription though. If you have an oral history that was recorded in Spanish and would like it translated to English text, we have many experienced translators up to the task. We also have native Spanish-speaking translators who can translate from English to European or Latin American Spanish.
We can transcribe and translate from a large variety of audio and video formats, both analog and digital. You can securely upload .wav, .mp3, .avi, and many other digital audio and video formats. If you have physical media instead such as old tapes, MiniDiscs, CDs, or DVDs, you can ship them to us via UPS, FedEx, or USPS.
Marginally Intelligible Oral Histories
Sometimes recorded speech may be difficult to understand. A person may be speaking quietly or be too distant from the microphone and other times may have a speech impediment, have a foreign accent, or be speaking too excitedly. The problem may also be overlapping speech from multiple speakers or background noises such as traffic. Our world-class forensic linguists have spent years learning to decode and then transcribe or translate such difficult speech.
Click Here to Visit Our Main Transcription Services Page
Click Here to Visit Our Main Translation Services Page
Audio Enhancement and Restoration
Modern hardware and software allows us to do amazing things with old audio formats that may not sound as good as one would like. If hissing, buzzing, humming, and other ambient sounds are making it difficult for the listener, we can utilize a number of techniques to improve the quality of the sound, making for a better listening experience.
We can also amplify the speech of people speaking too quietly or who are too distant from the microphone.
Click Here to Visit Our Audio Enhancement Page
Modern hardware and software allows us to do amazing things with old audio formats that may not sound as good as one would like. If hissing, buzzing, humming, and other ambient sounds are making it difficult for the listener, we can utilize a number of techniques to improve the quality of the sound, making for a better listening experience.
We can also amplify the speech of people speaking too quietly or who are too distant from the microphone.
Audio Editing
Editing your recording is another option. We can delete sections, rearrange the order of questions and answers, combine or split recordings, and remove pauses, uhs and ahs, and other unwanted utterances and noises.
Editing your recording is another option. We can delete sections, rearrange the order of questions and answers, combine or split recordings, and remove pauses, uhs and ahs, and other unwanted utterances and noises.
Damaged Oral History Tapes?
Magnetic tape deteriorates over time and can suffer from a variety of problems. Cassette shells can also break; and the tape inside can stretch, break, or become stuck. We offer tape repair services that can bring old tapes up to speed, allowing for transcription, translation, and transfer to a more secure and lasting media format.
We can also repair scratched and scuffed compact discs and DVDs.
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Magnetic tape deteriorates over time and can suffer from a variety of problems. Cassette shells can also break; and the tape inside can stretch, break, or become stuck. We offer tape repair services that can bring old tapes up to speed, allowing for transcription, translation, and transfer to a more secure and lasting media format.
We can also repair scratched and scuffed compact discs and DVDs.
Subtitles
Whether monolingual or bilingual, we can add English or Spanish subtitles to your oral history videos. When it comes to subtitling, we cannot work with physical media such as VHS or MiniDV tapes. However, we can add subtitles to digital video files such as .mpeg, .wmv, and .avi. We can work with provided transcripts, or prior to subtitling we can transcribe or translate the video for you.
Contact Us Today for Oral History Support Services
(509) 413-3448
or
info@Textphonic.com
Visit our oral history transcription page.
(509) 413-3448
or
info@Textphonic.com