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| − | | ELAN | + | | [https://archive.mpi.nl/tla/elan ELAN] |
| − | | The Language Archive | + | | Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, The Language Archive, Nijmegen, The Netherlands |
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Revision as of 01:30, 9 April 2021
Contents
Training resources
- E.A. Schegloff has a Transcription Module on his website: “The transcription module is designed to provide practice in transcribing talk-in-interaction using conversation analytic conventions”.
- An introductory online tutorial on CA transcription and analysis, by Charles Antaki
- See some notes on transcription software here: CASE advisory on equipment for recording and analysing in CA
- Video introduction on Jefferson Transcription by Em does CA
- How to use CLAN and ELAN together by SaulAlbert (talk)
- lots of videos by Brian MacWhinney (creator of CLAN)
- lots of great CLAN video tutorials
Specialised Transcription Software
Free / Open Source transcription tools
- CLAN - download here: https://dali.talkbank.org/clan/ - a large array of transcript analysis tools including an editor for CA transcriptions.
- https://tla.mpi.nl/tools/tla-tools/elan/ - a widely used tool for the creation of complex annotations on video and audio resources.
- http://transag.sourceforge.net/ - a multi-platform general transcription tool for segmenting, labeling and transcribing speech
- http://agd.ids-mannheim.de/folker.shtml - a transcription tool designed to support transcription in the FOLK corpus.
- http://www.exmaralda.org/ - a large suite of tools including a partiture editor usable for transcription
Commercial transcription software
- Transana: software for the transcription of video data; download here: http://transana.org/
- http://www.audiotranskription.de/english/f4.htm - user-friendly transcription and annotation tool.
- http://www.inqscribe.com/ - a user friendly video transcription tool. highlight: automatic subtitle exports.
Comparison of Transcription Software
| Name | Creator | Software license | Platform(s) | Open source | Last updated | Multilingual | Partition editing | Line-by-line editing | Syncs transcript with data | Jeffersonian symbols | Machine-readable transcripts | Import formats | Export formats |
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| ELAN | Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, The Language Archive, Nijmegen, The Netherlands | GPL3 | Mac, Windows, Unix | Yes | March 22, 2021: Release 6.1 | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | No | Yes | Toolbox, FLEx, CHAT, Transcriber, CSV, Subtitle Text, Audacity Label, Praat TextGrid, recognizer Tiers, Shoebox | Toolbox, FLEx, CHAT, Tab-delimited text, Tiger XML, Interlinear text, HTML, Traditional transcript, Time-aligned Interlinear text, Praat TextGrid, WebAnnotation JSON, Alphabetical list of words, SMIL, QuickTime text, Subtitle text, Tiers for recognizers, Media clip using script, Image from ELAN window, Filmstrip Image, Annotation Density Plot, Shoebox, |
| CLAN | |||||||||||||
| Transana | |||||||||||||
| Folker | |||||||||||||
| TranscriberAG | |||||||||||||
| Inqscribe | |||||||||||||
| f4transrkipt | |||||||||||||
| Anvil | |||||||||||||
| Praat | |||||||||||||
| Transcribe! |
- http://www.anvil-software.org/ - free video annotation / coding software
- http://www.seventhstring.com/ - commercial audio playback software for transcription
- http://www.fon.hum.uva.nl/praat/ - free phonetics analysis and representation software
File formats / tips
- Advice on setting up a WORD document for transcription, by John Heritage (UCLA)
- Transcription in HTML
- Typing transcription in various word processing programs - Paul ten Have
- Typesetting EM/CA Transcripts in Markdown
Professional Transcription Services
Literature on Transcription
There are a number of transcription-related resources in the EM/CA bibliography:
See also
- see also: Website: "Transcription in Action: Resources for the Representation of Linguistic Interaction", mainained by Mary Bucholtz
- Ashmore, Malcom., Darren Reed (2000) ‘Innocence and nostalgia in conversation analysis: The dynamic relations of tape and transcript.’ Forum Qualitative Sozialforschung / Forum: Qualitative Social Research, 1 (3). Available at:
http://qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/3-00/3-00ashmorereed-e.htm - Bonu, Bruno, coord. (2002) Transcrire l’interaction. cahiers de praxématique 39: 1-159
- Bucholtz, Mary (2007) ‘Variation in transcription’, Discourse Studies 9: 784-808
- Couper-Kuhlen, Elizabeth; Dagmar Barth-Weingarten (2011) ‘A system for transcribing talk-in-interaction: GAT 2’, Gesprächsforschung - Online-Zeitschrift zur verbalen Interaktion 12: 1-51 [1]
- Duranti, Alessandro (2007) ‘Transcripts, like shadows on a wall’, Mind, Culture, and Activity13(4): 301–10.
- Goodwin, Charles (1994) ‘Recording human interaction in natural settings’, Pragmatics 3: 181-209
- Duranti, Alessandro (1997) ‘Transcription: from writing to digitized images’. in his: Linguistic anthropology Cambridge: Cambridge University Press: 122-61
- Edwards, J.A., & M.D. Lampert, eds (1993) Talking data: transcription and coding in discourse research. Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum
- Have, Paul ten (2002) ‘Reflections on transcription’ cahiers de praxématique 39: 21-43 [text in PDF]
- Hepburn, Alexa (2004) ‘Crying: Notes on Description, Transcription, and Interaction’, Research on Language & Social Interaction 37:251-91
- Hepburn, Alexa; Galina B. Bolden (2012) ‘The conversation analytic approach to transcription’. In: Jack Sidnell, Tanya Stivers, eds. The Handbook of Conversation Analysis. Wiley-Blackwell: 57-76
- Jefferson, Gail (1985) ‘An exercise in the transcription and analysis of laughter’. In: Dijk, T.A. van, Handbook of discourse analysis. London: Academic Press, Vol. 3: 25-34
- Jefferson, Gail (1989) ‘Preliminary notes on a possible metric which provides for a ’standard maximum’ silence of approximately one second in conversation’. In: Roger, D., P. Bull, eds., Conversation: an interdisciplinary perspective. Clevedon: Multilingual Matters: 166-96
- Jefferson, Gail (1996) ‘A case of transcriptional stereotyping’, Journal of Pragmatics 26: 159-70
- Jefferson, Gail (2004) ‘Glossary of transcript symbols with an introduction’. In: Gene H. Lerner, ed. Conversation Analysis: Studies from the first generation. Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins: 13-31
- Laurier, Eric. (2014) The Graphic Transcript: Poaching comic book grammar for inscribing the visual, spatial and temporal aspects of action. Geography Compass, 8/4: 235-248
- MacWhinney, Brian; Johannes Wagner (2010) ‘Transcribing, searching and data sharing: The CLAN software and the TalkBank data repository’, Gesprächsforschung - Online-Zeitschrift zur verbalen Interaktion 11: 154-173 (www.gespraechsforschung-ozs.de)
- Mondada, Lorenza (2007) ‘Commentary: transcript variations and the indexicality of transcribing practices’, Discourse Studies 9: 809-821
- Ochs, Elinor (1979) ‘Transcription as theory’. In: E. Ochs and B.B. Schiefelin, eds. Developmental Pragmatics. New York: Academic Press: 43-72
- O’Connell, D.C., & S. Kowal (1994) ‘Some current transcription systems for spoken discourse: a critical analysis’, Pragmatics 4: 81–107
- Psathas, George, Tim Anderson (1990) ‘The “practices” of transcription in conversation analysis’, Semiotica 78 (1990): 75-99
- Traverso, Véronique (2002) ‘Transcription et traduction des interactions en langue étrangère’ cahiers de praxématique 39: 77-99
