Transcribe online how to#

You can work away on your own, or do it together by taking part in the Zoom meetings, which will run through how to sign up to the Transcribathon website and give a live transcription demonstration, showing how it’s done and answering any questions you might have along the way.īefore taking part in the workshops, participants are encouraged to register an account on įind out more about Transcription Week by visiting the DCLA website or watching the video below.

The workshops are being run as part of the European Commission funded EnrichEuropean+ project, an exciting initiative that aims to combine citizen science and artificial intelligence to unlock handwritten documents from the 19th century and make them available to researchers, students, amateur historians, and the public.ĭuring Transcription Week, people working from home, the office, or school will type in the handwritten information and enrich the documents by identifying place-names, dates, or other historical data. No matter what industry you’re in, we can accommodate transcription, translation, or data annotation. These workshops will demonstrate how to transcribe and enrich historical documents on the crowdsourcing Transcribathon platform. They will also troubleshoot problems participants may run into during their transcribing work. We built our transcription process end-to-end to take advantage of the best of both worlds a hybrid-model that combines speech recognition technology and human transcriptionists to produce transcripts at outstanding quality and accuracy. #TranscriptionWeek is a week-long event taking place from 28 March to 1 April where people from all over Ireland will have the opportunity to work together to transcribe, annotate, and georeference historical handwritten documents using the Transcribathon platform for crowdsourcing transcriptions on Europeana.ĭuring #TranscriptionWeek, the Digital Repository of Ireland (DRI) is collaborating with our friends at Dublin City Library and Archive (DCLA) to run a series of online workshops open to the public.