{"id":5417,"date":"2011-05-01T02:46:28","date_gmt":"2011-04-30T15:46:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.paradisec.org.au\/blog\/?p=5417"},"modified":"2011-05-10T19:07:18","modified_gmt":"2011-05-10T08:07:18","slug":"a-new-transcription-system","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.paradisec.org.au\/blog\/2011\/05\/a-new-transcription-system\/","title":{"rendered":"A new transcription system"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Just over a year ago I wrote a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.paradisec.org.au\/blog\/2010\/04\/how-long-is-a-piece-of-string\/\">blog post<\/a> about some of the parameters involved in transcribing media files, and how long it takes to do various sorts of transcription, translation and annotation tasks. In the commentary on my post, the ELAN transcription software tool developed at the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics at Nijmegen came in for some criticism. Thus Ariel Guttman wrote that it was: &#8220;highly non-user friendly and non-ergonomic, especially since using the software only through the keyboard is not so easy&#8221; and &#8220;the people at the MPI should start designing their software with user-friendliness in mind&#8221;. Stuart McGill agreed: &#8220;you\u2019re spot on with your comments on ELAN and keyboard use&#8221; and &#8220;transcription in ELAN is simply slow(er than it could be), no matter how well you know the program&#8221;. Stuart had decided that <a href=\"http:\/\/trans.sourceforge.net\/en\/presentation.php\">Transcriber<\/a>, despite not handling special characters, was a better tool for his needs.<\/p>\n<p>Well, as a result of user consultation involving <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mpi.nl\/people\/dingemanse-mark\">Mark Dingemanse<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mpi.nl\/people\/hammond-jeremy\">Jeremy Hammond<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mpi.nl\/people\/floyd-simeon\">Simeon Floyd<\/a>, the programmers at MPI-Nijmegen have now released <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lat-mpi.eu\/tools\/elan\/download\">ELAN version 4.1<\/a> which has a new &#8220;Transcription Mode&#8221; that Mark and Jeremy describe in a <a href=\"http:\/\/ideophone.org\/transcription-mode-in-elan\/\">blog post<\/a> as &#8220;designed to increase the speed and efficiency of transcription work. The interface is keyboard-driven and minimizes U[ser] I[nterface] actions&#8221;. Further details about the new mode and how to set it up and use it can be found in the blog post. It will be interesting to hear user reactions to the new facility over coming months.<\/p>\n<p>Now, if someone would do a user consultation about the metadata browser <a href=\"http:\/\/corpus1.mpi.nl\/ds\/imdi_browser\/\">IMDI<\/a>, also developed at MPI-Nijmegen &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just over a year ago I wrote a blog post about some of the parameters involved in transcribing media files, and how long it takes to do various sorts of transcription, translation and annotation tasks. In the commentary on my post, the ELAN transcription software tool developed at the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics at &#8230; <a title=\"A new transcription system\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.paradisec.org.au\/blog\/2011\/05\/a-new-transcription-system\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about A new transcription system\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[40,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5417","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-software","category-technology"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.paradisec.org.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5417","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.paradisec.org.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.paradisec.org.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.paradisec.org.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.paradisec.org.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5417"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.paradisec.org.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5417\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5647,"href":"https:\/\/www.paradisec.org.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5417\/revisions\/5647"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.paradisec.org.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5417"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.paradisec.org.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5417"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.paradisec.org.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5417"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}