chit at work
A voice recorder for research interviews and lectures
Who carries it: Professor / researcher
Your IRB approved the study; your tooling should stand up to the same scrutiny. chit is a voice recorder for research interviews — hold the button through interviews, lectures, office hours, and committee meetings, and get back full transcripts ready for coding, plus the committee action items you didn't have to write down.
Your IRB approved the study, not your transcription vendor.
When a professor presses it
- Lectures
- office hours
- research interviews
- committee meetings
“Qualitative researcher; transcribe interviews ready for coding.”
A context like this — typed once into the app — is how chit stops being a generic recorder and starts being yours.
Lecture summaries; committee action items.
Mostly individual — department deployments keep data resident in the institution's own VPC.
IRB work needs a data-residency answer: institution deployments keep recordings in your own VPC.
Interviews that arrive ready to code
Qualitative work has an ugly middle: the interview happens, and then someone spends four hours per hour of audio turning it into text before analysis can start. Hold the card through the interview and the transcript is waiting, ready for coding, without the retyping pass. It records offline, so a field interview in a building with no signal is not a problem. Committee meetings and office hours are worth capturing for the mundane reason — the action items you agreed to and then forgot by Thursday. Institutional deployments keep recordings resident in the university's own VPC, which is generally what an IRB data-management plan needs an answer for. The consent process itself remains yours; chit only ever records while somebody is holding it.
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Good questions
Can it transcribe qualitative interviews ?
Yes. The $9/month membership includes unlimited transcripts, ready for coding without a retyping pass.
Will my IRB accept it?
Your IRB makes that call, but the design helps: chit records only while the button is held — a deliberate, visible act that fits consent protocols — and institutional deployments offer data residency in your own VPC. Ask us about compliance deployments at hichit.com/enterprise.
Does it work for fieldwork without internet?
Yes. chit records offline and syncs later, and the battery runs about a month of typical use — remote sites and archive basements included.
Can I search a semester of recordings at once?
Yes. Ask-anything search runs across everything captured — interviews, lectures, committee meetings — so one participant's phrasing or one committee decision surfaces in seconds.
What does it cost on a grant budget?
chit one is $129, chit one Pro is $179, and the membership is $9/month. Free shipping in the contiguous US, free 30-day returns, and about a 3-week lead time currently.
Recording laws differ by state, and several require every party's consent. chit only captures while the button is held — know your state's rule before recording another person.
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