Transcriber

[Nicholas Thieberger]

Anna,

It sounds like it will not be any extra trouble for you to include 
the English in the transcription, but you may want to mark the 
language and English text somehow so that you can automatically 
separate them later (perhaps when you put the file into Toolbox for 
glossing?). You may want to strip out the English for some purposes, 
and having it clearly marked will make that easier later. What I mean 
by marking is something like:

This is the transcription in language <English> This is the 
transcription in English
or even
This is the transcription in language \fg This is the transcription in English

where the beginning of the line is taken as being the start of the 
language and the end of the line is taken as being the end of the 
English.

In general, I prefer to keep the time-aligned transcript a simple as 
possible, and then put the more complex annotation into the Toolbox 
version, but that's my workflow preference, using Audiamus as the 
main repository of transcripts and media.

Nick


At 11:43 AM +1000 28/9/06, Anna Ash wrote:
>Hi all,
>We are transcribing language materials in Transcriber. The 
>transcriptions have already been done in Word documents, so it is a 
>matter of cutting and pasting the text (in English and the 
>Indigenous language) into Transcriber. How important is it to 
>include the English? Is it useful for concordance searches further 
>down the track? I'm guessing it could be, but would be interested in 
>any comments or feedback from those who have done this already.
>Thanks in advance,
>Anna
>--
>Anna Ash
>Coordinator-linguist
>Many Rivers Aboriginal Language Centre
>C/- Muurrbay
>14 Bellwood Road
>Nambucca Heads NSW 2448
>Ph. (02) 65685695 Mob: 0404456992
>Fax. (02) 65694295
>web: www.muurrbay.org.au

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