From: Alan S. <ast...@gm...> - 2008-07-08 17:10:24
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Hi Claude, Thanks for the additional information and thanks for all your past work on this project. I do hope they maintain the ability of end-users to easily create export filters as it easily allows users to generate data files that can be imported into lots of other programs that wouldn't normally work with the various data formats bundled with the downloaded version. In my case, qualitative data analysis programs like Atlas-ti and NVivo (see http://forums.qsrinternational.com/index.php?showtopic=2379). It's this type of flexibility and easy interoperability that has helped make Transcriber such a popular program among social scientists, linguists and others. Cheers, Alan. Claude Barras wrote: > Hi Alan, > > I am not directly involved in this new development, but I can > still partly answer to your questions (given that Mathieu is > currently not available for answering). > > > astockdale a écrit : >> Mathieu, >> >> Thanks for the update on the next version. I have several questions: >> >> 1. Will the new version still use Snack? Development on Snack seems >> to have stopped back in 2005. And will the new version properly >> handle MP3 files? Transcriber 1.5.1 handles WAV and OGG files >> accurately but it doesn't properly calculate time points within MP3 >> files, which I'm guessing is an issue with Snack. By my calculations >> the time point drifts off from the real time point by as much as 17 >> seconds on a one hour audio file. > > the new development is independant of Tcl and Snack, so the > mp3 playback may be (hopefully) more accurate... > >> >> 2. One of the things I really like about the current version of >> Transcriber is the ability end-users have to easily write export >> filters to output the data in whatever manner is needed so it can be >> easily imported into other programs. Will that feature still be >> supported in the new version? > > not sure about that either, this is a good point. > >> 3. Also, is the redevelopment related to the Quaero Programme? > > in some sense: the developer, Bertin, is also involved in this > programme, and the (new) Transcriber will be used for some > corpus creation in the project. > > Best, > Claude > >> >> Thanks, Alan. >> >> ============================================ >> Posted By: mantam >> Date: 2008-05-19 08:53 >> Summary: Transcriber Next Gen >> >> Transcriber is being completely redevelopped by Bertin Technologies >> and should be released by Q2 09. >> That new version will be based on Annotation Graph, which will be the >> default format of the new annotation files. >> In a nutshell, an Annotation Graph represents linguistic annotations >> of time series data as a formal graph. >> An AG also abstracts away from file formats and provides a logical >> layer for annotation systems. >> A beta version should be available in a couple of month. >> Stay tuned. >> > |