Transcriber

[Colleen Hattrsley]

Thanks Nick and Linda.
I'll give it a try soon.
Colleen



> Nicholas Thieberger <thien at unimelb.edu.au> wrote:
>
> Colleen,
>
> To get your data out of Transcriber you can do one of several things.
> The
> easiest, sort of, it to open the file you have created, ending with a
> .trs
> extension. This is the working transcript, with timecodes and text. But
> it
> is all wrapped in XML and can be a little forbidding to deal with.
> Nevertheless, it has all your information in it.
>
> The other way is to choose File/Export and try out the options there.
> The
> LIMSI label option (only on Mac I think) provides just a timecode and
> the string of text.
>
> To actually segment the audio, see the discussion on this list  earlier
> this month and late January by Andrea Berez.
>
> Nick
>
>
> At 1:22 PM +1100 12/2/05, chatts123 at optusnet.com.au wrote:
> >Dear Nick
> >Thanks for your tips about the Transcriber program.   I think I've
> >got the main features
> >of it sorted now.  I have created an experimental document and apart
> >from some dots
> >and empty lines that don't want to go away, it seems to work as it
> >should.  But I can't
> >see how to import segments into other documents (eg Word or
> >PowerPoint).  Can you
> >tell me in words of few syllables how to do that?
> >
> >It seems to be a good tool for transcribing oral history as well as
> >'language'.  I'll be
> >using it for both purposes.
> >Regards
> >Colleen Hattersley