alexBy now, you’re surely heard news of the “refugee crisis” affecting countries across the globe. Did you know that InqScribe is used in the field to document the stories of these refugees?
By: Karl Schembri, Regional Media Advisor in the Middle East for the Norwegian Refugee Council
As a humanitarian NGO, we respond to crises around the world. My job and that of my colleagues in the media department of the Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC) is to collect stories from among the millions of refugees and the internally displaced—from Syria to Yemen, from Iraq to Palestine—it is always innocent civilians who end up suffering the most and our job is to tell their stories and try to influence change on the ground as well as on the decision tables.
I came across InqScribe during a particularly stressful time when we were rushing to gather as many filmed interviews as possible with very little backup for transcriptions and time coding. After looking frantically online for software that could help me with the task, I came across the InqScribe trial version and I was immediately hooked to it because of its versatility, ease, and friendliness. InqScribe has made the entire process of transcribing and timecoding so much easier for our staff dealing with real crises and emergencies where every little bit of help is essential. Now, with InqScribe, we can focus on the content and quality.
Having the option to save QuickTime videos with subtitles is a great way to share draft rushes without going through the entire editing process. It helps a lot especially when there are translations involved and we need to double check interviews, making sure the right words are transcribed and translated at the right time, etc. Overall, it is a very useful feature that I love.
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Thanks Karl! If any readers out there are “looking frantically online” for the right transcription software, feel free to request a free 14-day trial of InqScribe. If, like Karl, you work at a nonprofit or academic institution, we offer 30% discount (details here) off your InqScribe purchase.
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