Evaluations of the Transformer

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Software forum, linguistic server University of Essen

 

Annotation Programs supported by the Transformer

video support
Praat

Praat is a software for doing phonetics with computer. It offers a very simple, easy to use and fast possiblibity to transcribe audio files in a partiture editor (Paul Boersma and David Weenink, Institute of Phonetic Sciences, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands).

no
ELAN

ELAN is an elaborated and easy to use partiture editor for audio and video data. (Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen, The Netherlands)

yes
Transana

Transana is designed to annotate audio and video data in a text editor. (Chris Fassnacht and David K. Woods, Wisconsin Center for Education Research, University of Wisconsin-Madison).

yes
Transcriber

Combined partiture and text editor for two part conversations.

no
EXMARaLDA

EXMARaLDA is a system of concepts, data formats and tools for the computer assisted transcription and annotation of spoken language. EXMARaLDA is being developed in a project at the Collaborative Research Center "Multilingualism" (Sonderforschungsbereich "Mehrsprachigkeit" - SFB 538) at the University of Hamburg as the core architectural component of a database "Multilingualism" (Dr. Thomas Schmidt, University of Hamburg).

Alignment is not implemented yet. Data can be imported and exported to Praat. Therefore EXMARaLDA is compatible with the Transformer

no

 

 

Other annotation programs

video support
Annotation Graph Toolkit

Four simple tools to transcribe audio and video files that are compatible with EXMARaLDA..

  • MultiTrans: transcribing multi-party conversation
  • TableTrans: observational coding of audio (Version 1.2 coming soon)
  • TreeTrans: syntactic annotation (coming soon)
  • InterTrans: interlinear text transcription (coming soon)
yes
Anvil

Anvil is a tool for for annotating video with a Praat import function. It offers frame-accurate, hierarchical multi-layered annotation driven by user-defined annotation schemes. The intuitive annotation board shows color-coded elements on multiple tracks in time-alignment. Special features are cross-level links, non-temporal objects and a project tool for managing multiple annotations. Anvil has originally been developed for Gesture Research.

yes
CLAN

Very old but often used editor for transcribing due to the CHAT-Format. Reommendation: Transana is more reliable and offers more functions.

no
f4

Basic and easy to use editor for audio files. Optional footswitch available.

no
HIAT-DOS

Quite old partitur editor for MS DOS and MS Windows. HIAT-DOS data can be converted to EXMARaLDA konvertiert but have to be reworked manually.

no
PUGATE Basic plattform independent editor.
no
TASX

A tool to annotate digital video- and audio files. Data can be imported in EXMARaLDA.

Ton und Text

Group of tools for transcription.

no

 

Links Concerning Transcription

Gesprächsforschung-online

EXMARALDA-hompage