Summary of Solutions for Recording Snafu

[Brian MacWhinney]

Dear Pam,
      Thanks for your note to info-childes regarding playback speed  
adjustment in CoolEdit and SoundForge. Let me add Amadeus Pro to the  
list of programs that do a great job for this type of sound editing.
       You also mentioned using Hypertranscribe for transcribing from  
video.  I downloaded that program and gave it a try.  There are  
perhaps a dozen programs that do something like this.  Many of them  
have additional powerful features that many users would consider  
important.   The three you might wish to consider are Transcriber  
(audio only), Transana, and CLAN.  All of these are free and  
downloadable from the web.  Transcriber is for audio only and works  
best for phone conversations with two people.  Transana has some nice  
coding features.  CLAN, which is the program used to produce and  
analyze data in the CHILDES and TalkBank systems, has the fullest set  
of features, including pretty much everything found in all of the  
other programs.  Crucially, the files produced by CLAN are linked in  
a format compatible with analysis by the CLAN programs and the  
CHILDES database.

-- Brian MacWhinney