Oral History Metadata Synchronizer    http://www.oralhistoryonline.org/

“The Louie B. Nunn Center for Oral History at the University of Kentucky Libraries OHMS provides users word-level search capability and a time-correlated transcript or indexed interview connecting the textual search term to the corresponding moment in the recorded interview online.

• OHMS Application: The OHMS application is where the work is done. This is the back-end, web-based application where interviews are imported, and metadata is created.  In the OHMS application transcripts are time-coded and/or interviews are indexed.  Upon completion, the interview record (including the synchronized transcript and/or time-coded index) are exported as an XML file.  When located on a web server, the OHMS XML file is what interfaces with your content management system through the OHMS Viewer.
• OHMS Viewer: The OHMS viewer is the user interface of ohms. When an interview is called by the repository, the OHMS viewer loads, calling select interview level metadata and the intra interview level metadata created in the OHMS Application from the corresponding xml file.”

Examples  http://www.oralhistoryonline.org/examples/

Does this look like a commercial?  I apologize.  Although I am not currently working with Oral History, I have conducted and tried to utilize oral history in the deep dark past before the interviews were videotaped and indexed.  It was painstaking and the quality variable.  Like many others, I turned to easier sources for my work. This cool new tool is a game changer because it makes Oral History Accessible!  Examining the Resource & guides  indicates that the production is by no means a magic wand.  But the structure eases the transcription process and the data tools make all the production worthwhile, because at the end of it, more people will be able to access the content.  I immediately sent the link to all my friends doing Oral History, who probably already knew about it, because they DO oral history.