>Are you volunteering to transcribe the 15 hours of tapes ? Ot to pay to
>have them transcribed and edited.
Terry - have you thought about dispersing the tapes to fifteen or so
volunteers for transcription? (If there aren't fifteen tapes, you can dupe
to make fifteen, and assign by speaker.) Then the transcriptions need to be
edited, OCR'd, and made into computer files that purchasers can have either
as disks (for example, I can record CDs) or hard copy. I would certainly
agree to being the editor, etc. As you say, having one person do all the
work is asking too much of a person, but splitting up the task would make
it eminently "doable"! The information is much too valuable to languish on
tapes.
In the future, it might be better to request that speakers provide an
advance copy of their notes or, preferably, entire presentation, which can
then be edited post-presentation to update, and printed (or scanned for
computer file). This is the system used by major Conferences, etc (PSA uses
this system for its Annual Conference, as do several others I know of in
the USA).
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