Error Syncing Media File to .cha File

[Leonid Spektor]

Please look at section "5.3 Transcriber Mode" in CLAN manual https://talkbank.org/0info/manuals/CLAN.pdf. Look for F5 function.


Leonid.

> On Oct 8, 2025, at 14:18, siddhi patel <siddhi.patel24 at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Thank you so much! I have a quick follow-up question — is it possible to change the bullet duration? My current template is set to 2 seconds, but I’d like to extend it to 10 seconds.
> 
> 
> 
> Best, 
> 
> Siddhi Patel 
> 
> 
> On Tue, Oct 7, 2025 at 7:02 PM Brian Macwhinney <macw at andrew.cmu.edu <mailto:macw at andrew.cmu.edu>> wrote:
>> Siddhi,
>>     The culprit is the period that you have in the file name.  CLAN reads the name up to the period and thinks that what follows is the file type.
>> 
>> — Brian MacWhinney
>> Teresa Heinz Professor of Cognitive Psychology, 
>> Language Technologies and Modern Languages, CMU 
>> 
>> 
>>> On Oct 7, 2025, at 2:01 PM, siddhi patel <siddhi.patel24 at gmail.com <mailto:siddhi.patel24 at gmail.com>> wrote:
>>> 
>>> Hi,
>>> 
>>> I’m having trouble syncing a media file with my .cha file. I’ve attached a screenshot of the issue. I created a folder with the media name and added both the .cha file and the media file to that folder. When I select the media file, it still gives me an error asking me to move the media file.
>>> 
>>> Could you please help me resolve this issue? I also noticed that there is an “xxx” in the Tape location section — could that be related to the problem? I’m not sure how to correctly set or locate that path.
>>> 
>>> Thank you so much for your help 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 

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