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<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">Aloha all,</font>
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<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">Are any of y'all familiar with ELAN,
a language archiving program?</font>
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<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">The UNL Center for Digital Research
in the Humanities (CDRH) folks are suggesting I look at it for possible
applications to the Omaha database work in progress.</font>
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<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">My CDRH guy give me an initial demo
today..</font>
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<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">The program requires an operator to
insert transcription directly linked to audio video files.</font>
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<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">It is XML based, so supposedly is UNICODE
compliant.</font>
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<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">It looks like the straight text transcription
can have a second line with parts of speech, and a third line that renders
everything in IPA.</font>
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<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">I just sent over a short wav file with
Omaha elicitation to see how we can deal with an Omaha orthography.</font>
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<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">It is possible to search on text words
(presumably Omaha, too, if that works).</font>
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<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">The visual ability with the wav files
does make me think that prosody studies could be done.</font>
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<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">Dumping the wav files into Audacity
or other software could give you pitch contours and such, like what Rory
Larson has been playing with recently.</font>
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<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">Bottom line, It looks really labor intensive
up front... but might have some uses down the road</font>
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<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">Ideas?</font>
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<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">Thanks</font>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">Mark</font>
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<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">Mark Awakuni-Swetland, Ph.D.<br>
Assistant Professor of Anthropology<br>
and Ethnic Studies (Native American Studies)<br>
University of Nebraska<br>
Lincoln, NE 68588-0368<br>
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