Re: digital transcription

From: Paul Prior (p-prior@uiuc.edu)
Date: Thu Sep 14 2000 - 20:04:27 PDT


I asked this question last week and now have some results.

>Does anyone know of good resources (software, hardware, tips) for doing
>transcription from digital video files? Thanks in advance for any
>assistance! If people send things to me (p-prior@uiuc.edu) to keep the list
>>cleaner, I'll post a compiliation of whatever I receive.

Rosa Graciela Montes <rmontes@siu.buap.mx> sugested checking out the Corpus
of Spoken American English people (esp. John DuBois) at the University of
California, Santa Barbara, especially their programs (Voice Walker and
Sound Writer) which were available free to download for transcription of
digitized AUDIO. And she also pointed to the CHILDES site at Carnegie
Mellon, which has a number of programs (CLAN) for doing several
kinds of counts (word frequency, MLU, repetitions and so on) on transcripts
once you have them and a program called the CED editor which simplifies the
actual transcribing (which still has to be manual though). One of their
utilities
allows you to link video and audio.

In searching for voicewalker and sound writer it looks as though they
might not be supported now (pages not found). However, using them and
Childes as search terms I did come up with several rich sites. The first
one and its morph have really extensive lists of tools and lots of links
(I'm just starting to explore). Ditto the ohio state site. Informedia is
interesting for what people are working on. And Childes offers the tools
Rosa pointed to.

http://www.ldc.upenn.edu/annotation/

morph.ldc.upenn.ed

www.cohums.ohio-state.edu/deall/chan.9/c-links4.htm

www.informedia.cs.cmu.edu/

childes.psy.cmu.edu/

Also Cindy O'Donnell-Allen" <cindyoa@lamar.colostate.edu> replied,
suggesting Digital Lava and noting that Jim Stigler out of UCLA has done
some really
impressive work using their resources. Their site address is:

http://www.digitallava.com/2000site/mainpage.html

Thanks much to Cindy and Rosa for their generous assistance! Now I have to
process what looks like a lot of possibilities.

.

Paul Prior
Associate Professor (English)
Associate Director, Center for Writing Studies
p-prior@uiuc.edu
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign



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