The next offering in the Baylor University Institute for Oral History (BUIOH) series of “Sharpen Your Skills” advanced online workshops is “Applying AI to Oral History” and will take place on July 16, 2025, at 10:00 a.m. CDT. This session serves as both an introduction to artificial intelligence platforms in general and the ways in which BUIOH has both utilized them in their workflow and harnessed them to further explore oral history content.
BUIOH Senior Editor and Collection Manager Steven Sielaff will walk participants through the definitions, descriptions, and categories of AI technologies and platforms available to oral historians, as well as focus on the current legal and ethical concerns when using AI in both in the profession and writ large. In addition, Sielaff will present case studies on his use of OpenAI’s Whisper for transcription and Box AI’s summarization tools for indexing, while BUIOH director Stephen Sloan will highlight the open-source Baylor University Transcript Analytics and Exploration tool (or BUTANE for short), discussing the impetus for its creation and the various tasks it can perform for assessing your transcript data.
Registration is now open and costs only $50! You can register and read more about this e-workshop series HERE.