[RNLD] Archiving SayMore files

[John Hatton]

 Note that SayMore already automatically creates a single file that
combines all the annotations, and places it, indented, below the .eaf
(ELAN) file. If you have just speech followed by careful speech, you get a
wav with the original and careful taking turns. If you also record a
translation, then you get a 3 tracks, this time with the original, careful,
and translation all taking turns, one after the other. Here's an annotated
screenshot from audacity of the saymore's generated "Oral Annotations" file
to illustrate that:




I was thinking such a combined file was a good archival artifact capturing
the whole BOLD package. Probably we need some kind of note when you export
the IMDI telling people that your language archive is not going to want the
contents of the folder with all the little recordings, but that all that
information is encoded in this single file.

It's exciting to hear that at least one researcher is doing BOLD. We'd love
to hear experiences or announcements on the SayMore forum,
https://community.software.sil.org/c/saymore.

Regards,

John Hatton

Senior Software Engineer/Program Manager
Language Software Development
SIL International


On Wed, Mar 14, 2018 at 3:08 PM, Nick Thieberger <thien at unimelb.edu.au>
wrote:

> If you have used SayMore for creating spoken annotations of a recording
> (the BOLD method) then you may have found that it has created hundreds, or
> thousands, of small audio files. When you come to archive this mass of
> data, you may want to try the tool our colleagues built for us. It
> rejoins the files and inserts silence in the master file so it is all
> synced up, and playable as a single file. On behalf of digital language
> archives I ask that you do not archive all of the small files created by
> SayMore, but that you use this method to produce a good archival form of
> the data.
>
> Details here: http://www.paradisec.org.au/blog/2018/03/merging-
> saymore-audio-snippets-into-a-single-wav-file/
>
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