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<div>Note that SayMore already automatically creates a single file that combines all
the annotations, and places it, indented, below the .eaf (ELAN) file. If you have just speech followed by careful speech, you
get a wav with the original and careful taking turns. If you also
record a translation, then you get a 3 tracks, this time with the
original, careful, and translation all taking turns, one after the
other. Here's an annotated screenshot from audacity of the saymore's
generated "Oral Annotations" file to illustrate that:<br><br><img src="cid:ii_jermhv4l1_16226818790e935b" class="gmail-CToWUd gmail-a6T" tabindex="0" width="561" height="341"><br><br></div><br>I
was thinking such a combined file was a good archival artifact
capturing the whole BOLD package. Probably we need some kind of note when you export the IMDI telling people that your language archive is not going to want the contents of the folder with all the little recordings, but that all that information is encoded in this single file.<br><br>It's exciting to hear that at least one researcher is doing BOLD. We'd love to hear experiences or announcements on the SayMore forum, <a href="https://community.software.sil.org/c/saymore" target="_blank">https://community.software.<wbr>sil.org/c/saymore</a>.
<br><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><p><a name="UNIQUE_ID_SafeHtmlFilter__MailAutoSig">Regards,</a></p><p><a name="UNIQUE_ID_SafeHtmlFilter__MailAutoSig">John
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<br><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Mar 14, 2018 at 3:08 PM, Nick Thieberger <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:thien@unimelb.edu.au" target="_blank">thien@unimelb.edu.au</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial">If you have used SayMore for creating spoken annotations of a recording (the BOLD method) then you may have found that it has created hundreds, or thousands, of small audio files. When you come to archive this mass of data, <span style="font-size:12.8px">you may want to try the tool our colleagues built for us. It rejoins the files and inserts silence in the master file so it is all synced up, and playable as a single file. On behalf of digital language archives I ask that you do not archive all of the small files created by SayMore, but that you use this method<span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;float:none;display:inline"> to produce a good archival form of the data.<span> </span></span></span></div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><br></div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial">Details here:<span> </span><a href="http://www.paradisec.org.au/blog/2018/03/merging-saymore-audio-snippets-into-a-single-wav-file/" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)" target="_blank">http://www.paradisec.<wbr>org.au/blog/2018/03/merging-<wbr>saymore-audio-snippets-into-a-<wbr>single-wav-file/</a></div></div>
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