BBC News Labs
Editorial-facing
Web-based, desktop first design
Digital Paper Edit
Editorial-facing
Web-based, desktop first design
Can we enable journalists to assemble digital 'rough cuts' of their audio/video interviews from an automatically generated transcript?
- Team:
Developers - Responsibilities: Workshop facilitation, early concept testing, research analysis, qualitative research, concepts, visual design
- Project timeline:
on-going
Understand
manual and time-intense:
- watching, re-watching and manually transcribing hour-long footage
- or using costly transcription services
- using multiple tools simultaneously
- exporting, importing, sending for collaboration
- some still edit with paper, highlighters and scissors
Learn
Constant check-ins and early concept testing including workflow mapping.
We reached out to journalists internally to test the prototype and get involved in feature improvements.
Outcome
The Digital Paper Edit web application transcribes journalists media material with upload, they will be able to:
- Easily switch between the transcribed material
- Highlight and filter the most interesting parts
- Drag and drop the interesting snippets to the editor
- Re-order the selected snippets in the editor
This tool is currently used by a small group of journalists, our early adopters to test and feedback to us.