[Corpora-List] Query on Linking Text & Sound Files

[Diana Maynard]

Dear Carol
I believe the Dept of Lang and Speech at the University of Nijmegen have such
a tool, which they are using in the MUMIS project.
Try contacting  Judith Kessens <kessens at challenge1.let.kun.nl>

Regards
Diana Maynard


On Thursday 17 October 2002 15:39, you wrote:
> Dear Colleagues,
>
> Does anyone have first-hand experience with any tools or techniques for
> linking existing text transcripts of speech to sound files?
>
> Specifically, the MICASE project team is looking for input on how to go
> about linking the sound files (currently in mp3 format, but convertable
> to other formats) with the text transcripts, in relatively small
> increments, and deliver the sound files online along with the transcripts
> (which are already available online, via the website listed below).
>
> Ideally we would like to link the transcripts to the sound files in such a
> way that from any point in the transcript you could click on a sound file
> link and get to that portion of the transcript -- to the nearest, say,
> 30-second or 1-minute increment. I realize the labor to do this for nearly
> 200 hours of naturally-recorded speech may be significant, but we are
> prepared to hire a number of research assistants to do as much of the
> markup, chunking, & aligning tasks as possible.
>
> If you know of & have used any kind of software that will simplify or
> streamline this process at all, or have suggestions about how we might go
> about it, I would very much appreciate hearing from you.
> (I do have a copy of the CSAE project's SoundWriter program, but because
> I have not been able to find any documentation on it, I cannot properly
> evaluate it; I suspect, however, that it's not exactly suited to our
> goals -- specifically the eventual web-delivery aspect. If you've
> successfully used this particular program, I would be interested in
> finding out more about it.)
>
> I will be happy to post a summary to the list of any replies I get.
>
> Thank you in advance,
>
> Rita Simpson
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>
> Rita Simpson, PhD.
> Project Director, Michigan Corpus of Academic Spoken English
> English Language Institute, University of Michigan   TEL:  734-763-7133
> www.lsa.umich.edu/eli/micase/micase.htm      www.hti.umich.edu/m/micase/
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