Re: Voice files with a lisp?

Karen Cunningham wrote:
I have an attorney who is finally starting to send voice files, rather than tapes. He does telephone interviews and uses some sort of coupler, which picks up the party on the other end of the line fairly well. However, he sounds as if he has a lisp on my end, but they say there is no lisp when they play the files on their computer.

Any ideas what type of tweaking I need to do on this end? These are .DSS files.

Telephone interviews are not the best situation. For some reason it seems like it is hard to get the host AND the guest sharp, clear, without electronic interference, and with enough volume at the same time.

Recommendations are to try playing the files with another transcriber (personally, I think my old Olympus transcriber produces better audio quality than ExpressScribe or Bytescribe on .dss files), use a good quality headset instead of speakers (for some reason I can hear better with stereo sound). Also try increasing the playback speed (you may have to increase it quite a bit, but sometimes that works wonders at sharpening voices). If the volume is up too high, sometimes it'll fuzz up the sound. Am assuming your sound card is fine. I've tried a few types of software to improve audio quality, but it doesn't make that much of a difference and sometimes lowers the volume or doesn't something else weird. That's all I know.

Barb 

Thanks!

Karen C. 


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