Volunteers are needed for a Transcriptathon next week. The Brown Media Archives and Peabody Awards Collection is hosting the virtual event. Grant funding from the National Archives allowed UGA to digitize four-thousand hours of content.
"So we have over 90,000 titles, and for the grant, we chose programs that were produced by local public radio and television stations, like WUGA, from 1940 through 1999. Those have all been digitized, but part of the project is creating transcripts of that content."
Mary Miller is the Peabody Awards Archivist. at UGA.
"The speech-to-text transcripts that we have have some mistakes so we need actual humans to listen to the programs while they're looking at those transcripts and correct them."
Miller explains how community members can help by transcribing programs from the comfort of their homes.
There will be a live demo training session available for volunteers.
"They have a tool called Fix It. Fix It has the transcripts and the audio synchronized."
The transcripts will aid researchers and make the content accessible for hearing-impaired patrons. The event is Wednesday, April 28th from 3 pm to 5 pm. Visit libs.uga.edu to register.
