<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div>I believe that Transcriber does not in fact support ogg. At least, not on Mac OS X. Loading a test file, I can see (go to File -> Informations) that the file is being interpreted as: "Alaw 16kHz mono" not ogg vorbis, which basically means it will play back as noise.</div><div><br></div><div>My digging around shows inconsistent information about ogg support in Transcriber, which currently uses the "Snack" library for handling audio. However, the primary source (the home page for the Snack library) says it supports the following:</div><div><br></div><div>"<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica; font-size: small; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; ">Supported sound file formats: WAV, AU, AIFF, MP3, CSL, SD, SMP, and NIST/Sphere<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; ">"</span></span></div><div><br></div><div>I haven't looked closely enough, but I believe this leaves you without the option of having a compressed format. Can anyone confirm whether any of the above allow for compression (excluding the fact that WAV files can technically wrap a compressed format)? Otherwise, I suggest mono, 16bit, 22.1kHz WAV files if working on speech data. I reckon even 11.05kHz would be acceptable if you're not transcribing close phonetic detail with significant information above 5000Hz.</div><div><br></div><div>Otherwise, you may have to wait for:</div><div><br></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: sans-serif, Helvetica, Arial; font-size: 16px; "><h2 style="background-color: transparent; color: red; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">New!</h2><ul><li><h3>May 08</h3><p>Transcriber is being completely redevelopped by Bertin Technologies and should be released by Q2 09. That new version will be based on Annotation Graph, which will be the default format of the new annotation files. In a nutshell, an Annotation Graph represents linguistic annotations of time series data as a formal graph. An AG also abstracts away from file formats and provides a logical layer for annotation systems. A beta version should be available in a couple of month. Stay tuned.</p></li></ul></span></div><div><br></div>No update so far of course...<div><br></div><div>Cheers,</div><div><br></div><div>Tom</div><div><br></div><div><div>On 18/01/2010, at 8:00 PM, David Nash wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div>At 10:42 AM +1100 4/4/09, Doug Marmion wrote:<br><blockquote type="cite">He did however point me to <<a href="http://www.loria.fr/~quignard/Transcriber/">http://www.loria.fr/~quignard/Transcriber/</a>>, where you can get Transcriber 1.5.2.<br></blockquote><br>Further, at <a href="http://users.rcn.com/astockdale/">http://users.rcn.com/astockdale/</a> you can get <a href="http://users.rcn.com/astockdale/Transcription.zip">http://users.rcn.com/astockdale/Transcription.zip</a> which contains 'Transcriber Guide.pdf' 'A GUIDE TO USING TRANSCRIBER TO TRANSCRIBE AND PREPARE DIGITAL AUDIO DATA FOR QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS', where on page 3 we read:<br><br>"The current version (1.5.1) doesn't correctly calculate the time points within MP3 files. This appears to be a problem in the Snack Sound Library used by Transcriber. (Note that Snack will be replaced in the next official version.) The problem results in the timing being off by slightly more than a quarter of a second every minute. On very short files this is almost unnoticeable but on longer files it will be very noticeable, resulting in about 17 seconds of drift on a one hour interview. I would suggest using WAV or OGG files with Transcriber. These are both handled correctly.'<br><br>I have a 40-minute OGG file (converted from WAV) which plays fine in Audacity, M Player OS X, and VLC. However, when I open the same file in Transcriber (1.5.1 or 1.5.2) it plays as noise, and the waveform display is mostly black. Any suggestions as to what is going on?<br><br>David<br></div></blockquote></div><br></body></html>