14.193, Sum: Minidisc Use in the Field and Lab

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Subject: 14.193, Sum: Minidisc Use in the Field and Lab

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Date:  Fri, 17 Jan 2003 15:10:36 -0000
From:  Lynne Murphy <lynnem at cogs.susx.ac.uk>
Subject:  Sum: Transcribing from MiniDisc

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Date:  Fri, 17 Jan 2003 15:10:36 -0000
From:  Lynne Murphy <lynnem at cogs.susx.ac.uk>
Subject:  Sum: Transcribing from MiniDisc

Thanks to the following for their responses to my query on
transcription machines/programs for use with minidiscs (Linguist
14.92):

Mark Jones, Eric Breck, Jeanette Ireland, Daniel Loehr,
Alexandre Enkerli

I reproduce the most specific suggestions below:

-Eric Breck <ebreck at CS.Cornell.EDU> wrote:

> If you can capture whatever audio you have to a digital format (.WAV,
> .MP3, etc.) then you can use my SoundScriber program
> (http://www.lsa.umich.edu/eli/micase/soundscriber.html) to do
> transcription.  It's a Windows-based program, that's essentially like an
> enhanced version of Windows' Media Player (well, enhanced over the version
> that existed in mid-1998, anyway); it does overlapping playback so you can
> hear each chunk of audio several times.
>
> The MICASE project I worked for then, as well as a number of other
> linguistics projects around the world, have used this successfully.
>
> And it's free.


- Jeanette Ireland <jireland at sprint.ca> wrote:

> Olympus has an excellent transciption system with
> dual disc size capabilities. I've used it for more than fifteen years,
> the advantage of course being that minidiscs take a much smaller archival
> space.


- Daniel Loehr <loehr at mitre.org> wrote:

>  I haven't done
> this so can't verify it, but if you can easily get the digital sound file
> from the minidisc to a computer, then you could possibly use the
> VoiceWalker software, which is designed for the very purpose of easily
> transcribing digital audio files.
>
> http://www.linguistics.ucsb.edu/resources/computing/download/download.htm


- Alexandre Enkerli <alexandre.enkerli at umontreal.ca> wrote:

>  Sending the file to the computer can
> either be done via an optical out or through re-digitizing the signal.
> The analog route might sound like distorting the signal too much, but it
> seems to work for most methods of acoustic analysis, including those that
> need a lot of data such as pitch-tracking.


Thanks to everyone who responded.  I'll be following up on their
suggestions.

Lynne Murphy

Dr M Lynne Murphy
Lecturer in Linguistics

School of Cognitive and Computing Sciences
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