to identify the interviewer and interviewee). will use to collect data that will further assist you in evaluating the alternatives under consideration. This will allow you to do some basic auto-coding (i.e. The data were managed using NVivo software. If you create a transcript that you're wanting to analyse in NVivo, be sure to make use of Styles in your document. It may well be nearly as quick to transcribe it manually. Be aware, though, that even with an automatic transcript, you're going to need to do a lot of work if what you're actually wanting is a perfectly punctuated verbatim text.
NVivo offers a paid transcription service, but there are free alternatives such as the ones we discuss on our Subtitling Skills Guide (if you're conducting an interview over Zoom, you can also enable its built-in auto-transcription).
To save time, you could transcribe directly into NVivo and code as you go or you could choose to code it up in some other way.Īuto-transcription is possible (though seldom very reliable). If you do feel the need for a transcription, you're going to have to create it yourself (unless you can persuade somebody else to do it for you!). If you have an audio file of an interview, for example, you can annotate it directly in NVivo, without the need for transcription: NVivo can be used to analyse more than just text-based files: images, audio and video can also be marked up.