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There are two workflows for this project. The first workflow is to identify a speaker in the program (Spanish not necessarily required). The second workflow is to transcribe a segment (Spanish comprehension required). If you want to transcribe audio, we recommend trying the "identify speaker (Spanish not required)" workflow first so you can become familiar with the types of audio you will transcribe.
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About Vintage Cuban Radio
Universidad del Aire (University on the Air) was an educational radio program that began airing on Radio CMQ in Havana, Cuba in 1948 during the presidency of Carlos Prío Socarras and later during the US-backed dictatorship of Fulgencio Batista up through 1963, the initial years of the Cuban Revolution led by Fidel Castro. The topics discussed and live audience question and answer sessions recorded on Universidad del Aire provide unique insight into the social and political tensions in pre and post-revolutionary Cuba.
We want to create tables of contents and full-text transcriptions for the Universidad del Aire radio recordings to enable deep engagement with the audio material as well as promote re-use of the collection for computationally driven research and teaching. We are asking volunteers to identify speaker's voices, ads, and music which will help us create a table of contents for the program (no Spanish required for this task). Volunteers can also transcribe segments. Creating full-text transcriptions will also open up the collection to a wider audience, such as researchers with reading knowledge of Spanish but not strong aural comprehension. Creating full-text transcripts will also enable us to identify if there are segments that should be prioritized for translation into English.