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TLAX 333 Latino Histories - Ochoa Camacho: Prepare Your Oral History Documents

Permission & Release Forms

Please include both of these forms in your project.  A interview release form should be signed by every person you intervierw.

Notification Letter

You may use this letter to inform prosepctive interviewees about the Community History Project.

Submit Your Metadata

When you have completed your project, please m fill out this form and provide some information about your oral history.

Creating Transcripts

Otter.ai is a digital tool that automatically generates transcripts from audio and video files. Transcriptions of up to 3 files and 600 minutes/month are free. Transcripts will need to be read and corrected for accuracy.

Transcribe is a transcription tool that can be used to more efficiently create transcripts from audio. With a subscription, users can upload audio and begin transcribing. Auto-transcription is available at  $6 / audio hour.

Project Templates

Please use these templates when putting together the final version of your project, which will be donated to and stored in the Library.  Here are a few notes about templates:

  • The areas you must fill out/modify are in brackets.
  • Please do not modify the font or formatting in the documents.
  • Please save the documents in the orginal file format (.rtf or Rich Text Format)