The ASR4Memory project, funded by NFDI4Memory, has developed an automatic transcription service for audiovisual research data for the research community, which was added to the NFDI4Memory service portfolio in 2025 as a 4Memory initiative service. One of its main areas of focus is the humanities, which deal with historical topics.

The service can be used to automatically transcribe audiovisual resources from heterogeneous sources in more than 30 languages for various research, reuse, and archiving scenarios. In compliance with data protection regulations, the research data is processed exclusively on locally operated infrastructures at Freie Universität Berlin. For further scientific use, the results are made available in various standardized transcript and exchange formats, including TEI/XML.

The presentation provides insights into the functionalities, strengths, weaknesses, and perspectives of the open-source application ASR4Memory and discusses its contribution to data protection-compliant and reuse-oriented research data management of audiovisual resources.

Please feel free to bring your own scenarios and questions from your project/research group, which we can discuss together afterwards

Zielgruppe:

Researchers and research support staff (FDM managers, data stewards, FDM service centers) of all qualification levels.

Sprecher:

Dr. Tobias Kilgus, Digitale Interview-Sammlungen | Forschungsdatenmanagement (Universitätsbibliothek, FU Berlin)

Peter Kompiel, Digitale Interview-Sammlungen (Universitätsbibliothek, FU Berlin)

Anmeldung:

Registration form for FDM@BUA am 19.05.2026