oTranscribe

oTranscribe is a free web app designed to take the pain out of transcribing recorded interviews.

• Pause (ESC), rewind (F1) and fast-forward (F2) without taking your hands off the keyboard
• Adjust playback speed with a slider or using F3/F4
• Your transcript is automatically saved to the browser's localStorage every second
• Rich text support using contentEditable
• YouTube and video file support

... and more!

Download a copy

Although a web version is available, you can install oTranscribe anywhere by following these steps:

1. Download the current ZIP archive.
2. Compile the CSS and JS with Grunt (see below for more detailed instructions).
3. Upload the files to a server of your choice.
4. Er...
5. That's it.

Please note that, in Chrome, local copies oTranscribe may not run correctly due to the browser's privacy settings.

Compiling the CSS and JavaScript

This repository only includes the "raw" JavaScript and CSS. To compile the production-ready files, install Grunt and then run the grunt command.

Unfamiliar with Grunt? Check out Chris Coyier's excellent guide to this useful build tool.

OTR file format

oTranscribe has its own file format (.otr), which is just a JSON file with the following parameters:

• text: The raw HTML of the transcript
• media: If available, the name of the last media used
• media-source: If available, a link to the last media used
• media-time: If available, the playtime of the last media used

Translations

Translations have been provided by the following talented and generous volunteers:

• Catalan: Joan Montané and Jon Sindreu.
• Chinese: baiqj and Cindy Ng.
• Dutch: Patrick Mackaaij and Marjolein Quist.
• French: Olivier Aubert, @goofy-bz and Dr J Rogel-Salazar.
• German: Dr J Rogel-Salazar and Lisa Bernhardt.
• Italian: Dr J Rogel-Salazar, Edoardo Putti and Federico Lasta.
• Japanese: harupong.
• Polish: Emil Maruszczak and Piotr Tarasewicz.
• Portuguese: enVide neFelibata.
• Spanish: Cristian Duque, Dr J Rogel-Salazar and Adrián Blanco.

More about translating oTranscribe here.

Libraries

oTranscribe is built on the foundations of several awesome projects:

• jQuery
• AudioJS (replaced with progressor.js)
• Mousetrap
• CDNJS for script hosting
• Font Awesome
• to-markdown
• jquery-clean
• webL10n