audio presentations and discourse analysis for the masses

[pasxapu]

Rachel,

If you are concerned about working with speech samples (audio) and text,
you might want to try a free software called Transcriber.

http://www.etca.fr/CTA/gip/Projets/Transcriber/

Transcriber allows the segmenting, labeling, and transcribing of a
speech sample.  It is not a software that captures audio for editing,
however.  Overall, it is a very simple and intuitive program.  It works
well with linguistic fonts and I have seen it used in a presentation
format.

Phil Cash Cash
Ph.d student in Anthropology and Linguistics (ANLI)
University of Arizona



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From: owner-linganth at ats.rochester.edu
[mailto:owner-linganth at ats.rochester.edu] On Behalf Of Rachel R.
Reynolds
Sent: Thursday, September 26, 2002 12:22 PM
To: linganth at cc.rochester.edu
Subject: audio presentations and discourse analysis for the masses

I don't have much to respond directly to Richard Senghas' posting about
new technological developments in audio, but in a related thematic, I
would like to ask if anyone knows about...

Audio presentations. I'd like to experiment with computer-based
presentations for conferences, workshops and classes that include about
a few minutes-long audio recordings of my informants. Now, I know that
shouldn't be all too difficult, however, I have never done anything
remotely that complicated with the computer before, so I'd appreciate
advice about how to start. So I am especially asking if anyone knows
about inexpensive audio editing programs, preferably free versions like
shareware to start with (so I can practice). Or perhaps there is an
editing program available as part of a presentation package that I might
already have but don't know about (can I edit audio in any of the
standard issue programs that universities have available to faculty),
etc.?

On a much more interesting note, I intend to experiment with a discourse
analysis presentation for non-linguists, seeing if these technological
tools make the close examination of discourse any way more accessible to
the untrained. D.A. work with specific texts is harder for me to sell as
a conference paper than just a straight up theoretical or descriptive
piece might be. I think this is because the focus on an actual
transcribed text that a non-linguist has to develop is limited and the
text even becomes a distraction in the 20 minute conference format. It
may be impossible to bring across, and perhaps work on closely-examined
inference in texts should only be presented to a linguist crowd, but I
want to try!! I'm especially interested in presentations that could help
recruiting graduate students and that could give my non-linguist
colleagues a better idea of what I actually do! If anyone wants to pick
up on this as a discussion topic, I'm all ears.

Rachel


Rachel R. Reynolds
Assistant Professor
Department of Culture and Communication
Drexel University
3141 Chestnut Street
Philadelphia, PA  19104-2875
tel (215) 895-0498
fax (215) 895-1333
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