32-Bit Float Recording and Why It Is Amazing
Portable digital audio recorders are essential tools for oral historians, filmmakers, journalists, folklorists, documentary and podcast producers, and sound designers, and when recording high-quality professional sounding audio, the capabilities of…
OHMS, WebVTT, Transcript Editor
OHMS, WebVTT, and a Transcript Editor
Several years ago, someone at the Library of Congress asked me why the OHMS application and viewer did not utilize one of the emerging timed-text standards. It was frustrating for…
Zoom Podtrak p4 and phone interviews
Zoom has just released the PodTrak P4 ($199), an impressive recorder with the built-in ability to easily conduct and record high quality telephone interviews. As more of our oral history…
Digital Audio Recorders: Zoom H4N Pro
The H4n Pro is an update to the very popular H4n which was a very popular recorder. The primary update to the H4n Pro is the improved preamps resulting the…
USB Microphones: The Bumblebee
As oral history and podcast interviewers around the world look for remote interviewing solutions for conducting oral history interviews during a pandemic, a lot has changed about the way we…
OHMS and Omeka: The OHMS Plugin Suite
This post is about the Nunn Center’s release of the OHMS plugin suite for Omeka that integrates OHMS (the Oral History Metadata Synchronizer) and Omeka in several powerful ways. But…

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