Transcription Software
Transcription was originally a process carried out manually, i.e. with pencil and paper, using an analogue sound recording stored on, e.g., a Compact Cassette. Nowadays, most transcription is done on computers. Recordings are usually digital audio or video files, and transcriptions are electronic documents. Specialized computer software exists to assist the transcriber in efficiently creating a digital transcription from a digital recording. Among the most widely used transcription tools in linguistic research are: References
- ANVIL (Annotation of Video and Language Data)
- A tool specialising in transcription of multimodal interaction, see ANVIL-Website
- CLAN (Computerized Language Analysis)
- A tool mainly used for the transcription of child language acquisition data as in the CHILDES database, see CLAN page of the CHILDES website
- ELAN (EUDICO Linguistic Annotator)
- A tool widely used for the transcription of sign language and the documentation of endangered languages, see ELAN page on the Language Archiving Technology portal
- EXMARaLDA (Extensible Markup Language for Discourse Annotation)
- A tool widely used in discourse analysis, dialectology and sociolinguistics, see EXMARaLDA website
- FOLKER (FOLK Editor)
- A tool developed for the Research and Teaching Corpus of Spoken German (FOLK) and widely used in conversation analysis, see FOLKER page at the website of the Institute for German Language
- Praat
- A tool widely used in phonetic, see PRAAT website
- Transcriber
- A tool originally developed for the transcription of speech, see Transcriber website at SourceForge
Other transcription software is developed for commercial sale.
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