AMANDA HYNAN FINAL THESIS PDF

APPENDIX M – ANONYMISED VERBATIM TRANSCRIPT 1
Amanda = Researcher, Nancy = female VOCA user, indirect access via headswitch.
Uses gesture for yes (opens mouth wide or smiles) and shakes head for no. Uses
natural voice to say yeah
Transcription: Naturally spoken words are italicised e.g. naturally spoken speech and
machine-produced digitized or synthesized speech (aided speech) e.g.“words and
sentences spoken by a machine” and non-verbal expressions are presented in
quotation marks with an explanation given in brackets e.g. ‘no’ (shakes head).
Overall interview time: 30 minutes 9 seconds.
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I was wondering do you use the internet could you tell me about that
first
(starts typing on communication aid)
what you like to use, oo sorry I went too quickly I’ll wait
(53 second pause) “I like use Facebook Skype”
Okay that’s interesting and do you use the internet as well for example
um do you go and look at YouTube
yeah
yup and how do you access things on the internet and social media. Do
you use it on your communication aid
yeah
so you can access it on here
yeah
would you mind just showing me how you do it would that, is that
something you wouldn’t mind
(23 second pause) “need my cable to computer”
ah. Right I’ve got you so um your you would use this (pointing to
communication aid) as a mouse control
‘yes’ (smiles)
and you would have like a USB cable onto a computer
‘yes’ (opens mouth wide)
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