Question about the 'Silence' command

[Leonid Spektor]

	It appears there was a bug in SILENCE command on Windows PCs. I have fixed it and new CLAN is installed in childes web site. When using SILENCE command you need to use +s option to specify strings that bullet segments associated with should be silenced.

Leonid.



On Nov 19, 2012, at 18:05, Nicole Tracy-Ventura wrote:

> Leonid,
> 
> Many thanks for your help. I just tried what you suggested using my
> data and the clip.cha file but I still can't figure out what's wrong.
> I notice that a new file is created, now named clip-silent.aif, but I
> can no longer hear the speakers. I will send you those files so you
> can see what I mean.
> 
> Nicole
> 
> On Mon, Nov 19, 2012 at 8:25 PM, Leonid Spektor <spektor at andrew.cmu.edu> wrote:
>> Nicole,
>> 
>>        SILENCE command does not work with MP3 media files. It only works with WAVE and AIFF format media files. The error message, if you have MP3 media file, is misleading. I will change it to be more informative. I have received the sample CHAT and media files that you emailed to me, but I want to reply to chilbolt, because this information is not specific to your media file. I have converted your MP3 media file to WAVE format and I have tested it on my Windows 7. It works fine on my Windows 7 machine. After you convert your MP3 file to WAVE format make sure that media file name ends with ".wav" and that it is a non-compressed WAVE media file. Also, make sure you have later version of CLAN. If your version is very old there could be a bug in it. Please, try SILENCE command on sample file that we provide with CLAN application. Try this command:
>> 
>> silence +salert clip.cha
>> 
>> The sample file "clip.cha" is located in either "CLAN\lib\samples" folder, if you have an older version of CLAN, or in "CLAN\examples" folder, if you have the latest version of CLAN. Let me know if the above SILENCE command on our sample file "clip.cha" doesn't work for you.
>> 
>> Leonid.
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> On Nov 19, 2012, at 13:37, Brian MacWhinney wrote:
>> 
>>> Dear Nicole,
>>>    This is mostly a question for Leonid, but when CLAN says it can't locate a media file, it is mostly the case
>>> that something is misspelled.  To be totally safe, you should make sure that your line says
>>> @Media:       C151aNTV, audio
>>> and make sure the file called C151aNTV.wav is in the same folder as your transcript.  And you should make sure that
>>> you can play the audio in QuickTime independently of CLAN.
>>> 
>>> --Brian MacWhinney
>>> 
>>> On Nov 19, 2012, at 4:57 PM, Nicole Tracy-Ventura <nicole.tracy.ventura at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> 
>>>> Dear all,
>>>> 
>>>> I am trying to use the Silence command (for the first time) and am
>>>> getting the following error message: Can't locate media file
>>>> "C151aNTV". The .cha file has been bulleted and I tried using .mp3 and
>>>> .wav versions of the audio file. I have also double checked that the
>>>> media file was spelled correctly in the Media header.
>>>> 
>>>> I'm using Windows 7 and have QuickTime installed.
>>>> 
>>>> Thanks for any tips.
>>>> Nicole
>>>> 
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