Betsy Sneller, assistant professor of linguistics in the College of Arts and Letters, was awarded a $99,908 grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities Digital Humanities Advancement Grant program for her project, “Building and Disseminating an App for Ethnographic Remote Audio Recording.” The project will develop an open-source code to create a self-recording mobile app, which will be critical for researchers who work with spoken data. 

“This work fills a really important gap in the kinds of tools that are currently out there,” Sneller said. “A lot of current solutions, like web apps, only allow short recordings, which is a problem for things like oral histories that usually last upwards of an hour. And our app includes time-aligned automated transcription on the back end, which helps researchers process their data as it’s coming in much more easily.” 

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