oTranscribe is a free, open source, browser-based app designed to assist journalists with transcribing interviews. The platform allows users to upload audio or video files, implement keyboard shortcuts, and employ other timesaving tools. Business journalist Elliot Bentley created the app, and it has since been acquired by the MuckRock Foundation (an investigative journalism nonprofit). The app has...

The Transkribus Wiki describes the project as "a comprehensive platform for the automated recognition, transcription, and searching of historical documents." Funded as part of the European Union's Recognition and Enrichment of Archival Documents (READ) project, Transkribus includes modules to perform a number of tasks, including: handwritten text recognition, OCR for typewritten texts, and...