Breathing Emotions & Stories: A different way of navigating Oral History

The history of oral history tradition records the influence of technology both in collecting, archiving, and navigating the oral history collections. The recent years have witnessed how computational technologies have transformed the field of archival sciences further, especially tools like automatic speech recognition, and natural language processing offer distinct opportunities for transcribing and analyzing oral history (OH) interviews. However, many oral historians emphasize the loss of auditory information when speech is converted to text, highlighting the importance of subjective cues for a complete understanding of the interviewee's narrative. In this talk, we will bring in questions, challenges and ways of navigating interview collections that focuses on the personal and emotional, by looking at the potential of paralinguistic cues such as breathing, fillers, and pauses.

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Voices unbound? Exploring new and/or possible directions in digital and experimental oral history

A lecture series co-organised by TU Darmstadt, UCL Centre for Digital Humanities, Luxembourg Centre for Contemporary and Digital History (C²DH) and the Max-Planck-Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte. The series is convened by Julianne Nyhan (TU Darmstadt), Andrew Flinn, Andreas Vlachidis, and Marco Humbel (UCL), Shih-Pei Chen (Max Planck Institute), and Gerben Zaagsma (C²DH), offering an important way of keeping up to date with the methodological and theoretical state of the art in digital oral history. We invited speakers to present work on recent technological developments that may hold promise for digital oral history. In this way, the seminar series appeals to (digital) oral historians, digital humanists and scholars of the history of information, memory and knowledge systems.