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Synchronizing Oral History Text And Speech: A Tools Overview, Robin Camille Davis Dec 2015

Synchronizing Oral History Text And Speech: A Tools Overview, Robin Camille Davis

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This article explores three tools that synchronize sound and text for online oral history collections: the Oral History Metadata Synchronizer (OHMS), the Text Encoding Initiative (TEI), and YouTube. A detailed description and examples are given for each. Integrating audio/video recordings and transcripts enables searching and browsing, making oral histories more accessible and approachable.