[Corpora-List] Re: transcribing video corpora

[James_L._Fidelholtz]

Alex Boulton escribió: 

<<Does anyone know of any free tools which help with transcription of video 
corpora? What we would ideally like would be a kind of video version of 
Transcriber (WinPitch is a bit complicated for our needs), ie which allows 
multimedia alignment of transcription, sound & video, plus the usual tools 
for annotating etc.>> 

Hi, Alex, 

Check out the CHILDES site. They have all sorts of transcription aids, as 
well as analysis tools (as long as you transcribe in their system, which is 
basically ASCII (I'm sure it's updated by now to permit slightly more 
'elegant' transcriptions, ie ANSI). The tools are quite useful. (Child 
Language Data Exchange System: childes.psy.cmu.edu/)
Don't let the 'child language' label fool you: the system is quite versatile 
and general (and, of course, includes video capabilities of the sort you are 
looking for). Now, I have not entered deeply into this system, being an 
oldie but fogey, but my wife (who works on child language) uses it and 
swears by it. 

Jim 

James L. Fidelholtz
Posgrado en Ciencias del Lenguaje, ICSyH
Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla     MÉXICO