For our NeedFinding process we did research and expert interviews.
We interviewed faculty from the Linguistics Department of the University of Rochester and figured out the following information:
6/6 interviewees were interested in our project
3/6 interviewees would likely use our product as a tool for their research
there is a need and use for what we aim to do
Our research went into looking as similar softwares that are currently available to the public.
Praat is a common speech analysis tool used in the Linguistics field. However, it grants information about frequency, pitch and visual cues of soundwaves. The interpretation of the data is ultimately left up to the user.
SpeechGraphics is a speech analysis software that turns audio into animated characters, predicting lip and tongue movements from the data.
None of the options provide transcriptions for users.