Telephone interviews

ppar3566

ppar3566

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Hi all. Im currently doing some research with teachers that involves me recording 30 minute long telephone interviews. I have just completed what I think is the perfect interview where the person provided all of the information that I needed to hear. Unfortunately the line was really bad and some of the conversation is muffled. Does anyone know the best (and hopefully free) method of breaking though that muffle so i can transcribe these responses. I can make out what I think the person is saying but I need to be 100% accurate. I am getting to the end of the PhD and don't really have time to get more interviews so if anyone could help I would forever be in gratitude. So come on all you tech savvy people I need your help:)
 
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If you have the telephone conversations recorded in digital format, you might try loading them in Audacity, a great freeware audio editing tool.
 
You can often filter certain frequencies out. However, the more you edit something the more the quality tends to go down.
 
I would second the vote for audacity, but yeh.. if the sound is garbage then there is slim chance you can pick out the clean sound.. you might be able to wangle a listenable fragment though.
 
Thanks all. I agree with HCS that it would be quicker to redo the interview but I have such heavy ethics requirments that this would be impossible (university ethics requirment + research = FTL). I will download audacity tonight and give it a shot. I slowed down the audio yesterday and by going peice by peice I can pick out most of it so i'll use audacity for the rest.

Again thanks for all your help.
 
tjguitarz said:
What is this project for? For your Ph.D? In what field?
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Yep its for a PhD. Nine months to go and counting. I am in the education departement here as it allowed me to get into the best uni here in Australia but I am actually an organisational psychologist (i.e. i use my powers for evil) and am researching teacher stress. Thanks for asking :)
 
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