<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;">Hi Sune,<div><br></div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>First about the F6 function. On Windows 11:</div><div><br></div><div>The F6 works the same way as ESC-8, continuous playback, function if the Walker Controller window is not opened. If there are not bullets at the end of the utterance, then it will try to find any utterance below with a bullet to play it. If there are no bullets, then there is no playback.</div><div><br></div><div>If Walker Controller window is opened and there is a bullet at the end of the utterance, then only that utterance will be played back. This allows to listen to that bullets and to modify that utterance text to better transcribe that bullet.</div><div><br></div><div><div>If Walker Controller window is opened and there is no bullet at the end of the utterance, then playback will continue until the end of the file. This allows to listen to playback and to transcribe all utterances. After transcribing is done you can use F5 function to add bullets to those utterances,</div><div><br></div><div>If this information about F6 does not help, then please be more specific about your work flow, i.e. what step you are taking in CLAN and what you are trying to achieve? Please, specify the sate of your data file, i.e. is your data file completely empty or does it have utterances transcribed already, do utterances have bullets already.</div><div><br></div><div>Please clarify what do you call ID header. Is it something that starts with @ character as in @IDheader: or is it the speaker code associated with utterance as in *CHI:?</div><div><br></div><div>Could you email to me directly a sample of your data file that does not work as you expect it to and please specify if Walker Controller window is opened or not and the steps you take before playback fails? My email is spektor@andrew.cmu.edu.</div><div>
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<div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div>On Aug 15, 2025, at 05:24, Sune S. Mortensen <sunesm@gmail.com> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div>Hello all,<div><br></div><div>I regularly used CLAN for transcribing conversations and interviews some years back and I'd like to employ it again for a new project - but one of the central features (to me) doesn't seem to work now, or at least not in a way I understand: the simple playback of a transcribed extract, highlighting each line/segment as it plays. I can still activate this function (still using F6 on my Windows laptop), but now for some reason the playback stops when it reaches a line/segment with no explicit ID header. When a speaker talks for a stretch of several lines I would usually enter their ID header only once at the beginning of their speaking turn (and CLAN inferred the same ID for all succeeding lines until a new ID header was displayed), but now it appears I need to repeatedly enter the same ID header for each line/segment. If I don't do this, the F6 playback stops at each line/segment, and I need to manually place the cursor at the next line/segment and hit F6 again to resume playback, again only to watch it stop immediately after.</div><div>I have checked and double-checked all the time codes, the segments are not overlapping or anything and the transcripts check out fine using ESC L. I've also ensured using the latest versions of CLAN, and I've tried using different laptops (running Windows 11) but without any difference. What really baffles me, though, is that this problem is apparently not consistent. When opening my old CLAN transcriptions (e.g. 2016-2020), they seem to play back just fine as they are, even though they don't have explicit ID headers for each line. And even now, when I start a new transcription, I'm sometimes allowed for a certain stretch to do it 'the old way', i.e. transcribe multiple-line speaker turns without repeating the ID header for each line/segment (and F6 playback will run uninterruptedly), but then at some point in the same file this is no longer possible. That is, F6 playback will run smoothly during the first stretch and then later stop because there's no explicit ID header. This alternation appears to me as entirely random - I can't think of anything that has been done differently in the stretches/files where F6 playback runs uninterruptedly, as opposed to those where it doesn't.</div><div>Of course I could just accept this apparent 'requirement' and enter ID headers for each line/segment, but it seems an illogical requirement as it would be very inconvenient and severely decrease the legibility and aesthetics of the transcript. Also, other CLAN users I've talked to do not recognize the problem and I've consulted online manuals and tutorials etc. without any luck, so my impression so far is I may be the only user dealing with this. Does anyone have an idea what might cause this, what I might be doing wrong, or how I can approach it in terms of e.g. workarounds? I use the playback function regularly for presentations and shared data sessions etc., and simply for going through and analyzing data, so the feature is very important to me.</div><div><br></div><div>All the best, and thanks in advance</div><div>Sune S. Mortensen</div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div>
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