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Khalid Choukri<br><br>
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At Thursday 10/17/02 04:39 PM(), Rita Carol Simpson wrote:<br>
<blockquote type=cite class=cite cite>Dear Colleagues,<br><br>
Does anyone have first-hand experience with any tools or techniques
for<br>
linking existing text transcripts of speech to sound files?<br><br>
Specifically, the MICASE project team is looking for input on how to
go<br>
about linking the sound files (currently in mp3 format, but
convertable<br>
to other formats) with the text transcripts, in relatively small<br>
increments, and deliver the sound files online along with the
transcripts<br>
(which are already available online, via the website listed
below).<br><br>
Ideally we would like to link the transcripts to the sound files in such
a<br>
way that from any point in the transcript you could click on a sound
file<br>
link and get to that portion of the transcript -- to the nearest,
say,<br>
30-second or 1-minute increment. I realize the labor to do this for
nearly<br>
200 hours of naturally-recorded speech may be significant, but we
are<br>
prepared to hire a number of research assistants to do as much of
the<br>
markup, chunking, & aligning tasks as possible.<br><br>
If you know of & have used any kind of software that will simplify
or<br>
streamline this process at all, or have suggestions about how we might
go<br>
about it, I would very much appreciate hearing from you.<br>
(I do have a copy of the CSAE project's SoundWriter program, but
because<br>
I have not been able to find any documentation on it, I cannot
properly<br>
evaluate it; I suspect, however, that it's not exactly suited to
our<br>
goals -- specifically the eventual web-delivery aspect. If you've<br>
successfully used this particular program, I would be interested in<br>
finding out more about it.)<br><br>
I will be happy to post a summary to the list of any replies I
get.<br><br>
Thank you in advance,<br><br>
Rita Simpson<br>
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Rita Simpson, PhD.<br>
Project Director, Michigan Corpus of Academic Spoken English<br>
English Language Institute, University of Michigan TEL:
734-763-7133<br>
<a href="http://www.lsa.umich.edu/eli/micase/micase.htm%A0%A0%A0%A0%A0" eudora="autourl">www.lsa.umich.edu/eli/micase/micase.htm
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<a href="http://www.hti.umich.edu/m/micase/" eudora="autourl">www.hti.umich.edu/m/micase/</a><br>
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