[Lingtyp] Recovering text from Transcriber

[Juergen Bohnemeyer]

Thank you, Nick!!! Yes I had tried text processors, to no avail. Word throws an unspecified error; the Apple Notes app imports the file as an image, unhelpfully.

But, you’re absolutely right, ELAN imports Transcriber files! I can’t believe I never even tried that 🤦‍♂️

Thanks again! -- Juergen

Juergen Bohnemeyer (He/Him)
Professor, Department of Linguistics
University at Buffalo

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From: Nick Thieberger <nick.thieberger at gmail.com>
Date: Wednesday, March 22, 2023 at 7:49 PM
To: Juergen Bohnemeyer <jb77 at buffalo.edu>
Cc: LINGTYP at listserv.linguistlist.org <lingtyp at listserv.linguistlist.org>
Subject: Re: [Lingtyp] Recovering text from Transcriber
Elan does import transcriber files, but, as I recall, the .trs file is a text file that can be opened in a text processor, have you tried that?

All the best,

Nick

On Thu, 23 Mar 2023 at 09:52, Juergen Bohnemeyer <jb77 at buffalo.edu<mailto:jb77 at buffalo.edu>> wrote:
Dear all – Does anybody happen to know a hack for extracting text transcribed with the long-defunct Transcriber app? Transcriber was a pre-ELAN-era tool for manual audio transcription that was initially superior to ELAN (for audio transcription) due to running more stably and being way more user-friendly. I think it stopped being updated around 2005.

Just like ELAN stores segmentation and annotation in .eaf files, Transcriber did so in .trs files. What I’m looking for is some way of extracting transcripts I made in 2004 from such .trs files. I apparently never bothered to export these to a format of greater longevity, presumably because when I stopped using Transcriber, or even thinking about it, I never made a decision to do any of these things. I suppose there’s a lesson there.

I can think of a variety of potential solutions for this: Maybe somebody developed an ELAN process for importing .trs files? Maybe someone still has a functional Transcriber installation and would be willing to open and export my files? (They’re not huge, we’re talking a couple of stories, I think.) Or maybe somebody knows some other app that can open .trs files?

Thanks! -- Juergen

Juergen Bohnemeyer (He/Him)
Professor, Department of Linguistics
University at Buffalo

Office: 642 Baldy Hall, UB North Campus
Mailing address: 609 Baldy Hall, Buffalo, NY 14260
Phone: (716) 645 0127
Fax: (716) 645 3825
Email: jb77 at buffalo.edu<mailto:jb77 at buffalo.edu>
Web: http://www.acsu.buffalo.edu/~jb77/

Office hours Tu/Th 3:30-4:30pm in 642 Baldy or via Zoom (Meeting ID 585 520 2411; Passcode Hoorheh)

There’s A Crack In Everything - That’s How The Light Gets In
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