Release of ELAN 4.1.0

[Jeremy Hammond]

Hi Rnlders,

As you may have noticed there is a new exciting development in the Elan
interface. We've been working hard here at MPI to get it just right for
high-speed transcription of complicated video data (but it works for audio
too!). This the "transcription mode" mentioned in the release notes below.
In short it allows you (or your native-language consultants) to focusing
on listening and typing, listening and typing...no mouse or fiddly
keyboard combinations needed. It also provides a really nice UI for doing
translation work by automatically creating annotations in a side-by-side
tabular view.

In any case I strongly recommend you check it out if transcription and
translation is one of the things you do.

You can read more about it here on Mark Dingemanse's blog:
http://ideophone.org/transcription-mode-in-elan/

If you have any questions or comments don't hesitate to email - we'll be
happy to hear feedback.

As for the next development in UI and functionality, you'll just have to
wait and see...

Cheers

Jeremy 



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Jeremy Hammond
Syntax, Typology and Information Structure Group
Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics
P: +31-24-3521171
E: Jeremy.Hammond at mpi.nl
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On 29/04/11 2:19 PM, "Nick Thieberger" <thien at unimelb.edu.au> wrote:

>---------- Forwarded message ----------
>From: Han Sloetjes <han.sloetjes at mpi.nl>
>Date: 29 April 2011 21:32
>Subject: Release of ELAN 4.1.0
>To: ELAN Discussion Group <elan at mpi.nl>
>
>
>Dear all,
>
>We are pleased to announce the release of ELAN version 4.1.0.
>
>This version introduces the Transcription mode, a new working mode
>geared to rapid and convenient entering of text into existing segments
>(annotations). The main element in this mode is a spreadsheet-like table
>displaying the annotations of selected tiers. Working in this mode is
>keyboard-driven; typing text, navigating to other cells, starting the
>media playback of a segment can all be done by using the keyboard only.
>The existing Segmentation function has moved from a separate window into
>the main window and is now one of the four modes that are accessible via
>the Options menu. Switching between tiers in the Segmentation mode has
>become much easier and the created segments can be corrected by dragging
>with the mouse.
>There are two new and improved functions for processing multiple files:
>annotations from overlaps and annotation statistics. The structured
>multiple file search has been extended with support for the Annotator
>attribute in the tier selection boxes and the number of rows and columns
>of the query matrix in the multiple layer search can now be set by the
>user.
>The new add participant function allows for creation of a group of tiers
>for a new participant based on an existing group of tiers. Tier
>attributes can now be applied to many tiers simultaneously, based on the
>hierarchy or on the type of the tiers.
>
>Information on other new features, changes and bug fixes can be found
>in the release notes at
>http://www.lat-mpi.eu/tools/elan/release-notes.html.
>
>Best regards,
>
>Han Sloetjes
>-MPI for Psycholinguistics-