Re: [Corpora-List] Query on Linking Text & Sound Files

From: Khalid CHOUKRI (choukri@elda.fr)
Date: Thu Oct 17 2002 - 18:50:34 MET DST

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    At Thursday 10/17/02 04:39 PM(), Rita Carol Simpson wrote:
    >Dear Colleagues,
    >
    >Does anyone have first-hand experience with any tools or techniques for
    >linking existing text transcripts of speech to sound files?
    >
    >Specifically, the MICASE project team is looking for input on how to go
    >about linking the sound files (currently in mp3 format, but convertable
    >to other formats) with the text transcripts, in relatively small
    >increments, and deliver the sound files online along with the transcripts
    >(which are already available online, via the website listed below).
    >
    >Ideally we would like to link the transcripts to the sound files in such a
    >way that from any point in the transcript you could click on a sound file
    >link and get to that portion of the transcript -- to the nearest, say,
    >30-second or 1-minute increment. I realize the labor to do this for nearly
    >200 hours of naturally-recorded speech may be significant, but we are
    >prepared to hire a number of research assistants to do as much of the
    >markup, chunking, & aligning tasks as possible.
    >
    >If you know of & have used any kind of software that will simplify or
    >streamline this process at all, or have suggestions about how we might go
    >about it, I would very much appreciate hearing from you.
    >(I do have a copy of the CSAE project's SoundWriter program, but because
    >I have not been able to find any documentation on it, I cannot properly
    >evaluate it; I suspect, however, that it's not exactly suited to our
    >goals -- specifically the eventual web-delivery aspect. If you've
    >successfully used this particular program, I would be interested in
    >finding out more about it.)
    >
    >I will be happy to post a summary to the list of any replies I get.
    >
    >Thank you in advance,
    >
    >Rita Simpson
    >_________________________________________________________________________
    >
    >Rita Simpson, PhD.
    >Project Director, Michigan Corpus of Academic Spoken English
    >English Language Institute, University of Michigan TEL: 734-763-7133
    >www.lsa.umich.edu/eli/micase/micase.htm www.hti.umich.edu/m/micase/
    >_________________________________________________________________________

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