ISCA Archive Interspeech 2025
ISCA Archive Interspeech 2025

Transcribing Oral History Recordings Using the Transcription Portal

Christoph Draxler, Julian Pömp, Henk van den Heuvel, Fabio Ardolino, Arjan van Hessen

The Transcription Portal is a web-based service for multilingual orthographic transcription of speech, notably Oral History interviews. It is targeted at non-technical users: it provides a simple and intuitive GUI, supports several languages, and the workflow is pre-configured. Currently, the workflow consists of three steps: 1) automatic speech recognition, 2) manual correction of the transcript, 3) data export. Summarization and translation are planned. We demonstrate the portal on a set of historical Italian interviews on the Ravensbrück concentration camps.