Evaluations of the Transformer
| LINSE | Software forum, linguistic server University of Essen |
Annotation Programs supported by the Transformer |
video support |
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| 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 |
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| Annotation Graph Toolkit | Four simple tools to transcribe audio and video files that are compatible with EXMARaLDA..
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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. |
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| Ton und Text | Group of tools for transcription. |
no |
Links Concerning Transcription
| Gesprächsforschung-online |