[Lingtyp] Recovering text from Transcriber

[Nick Thieberger]

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> 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
>
>
>
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