[Air-l] air-l Digest, Vol 19, Issue 11

[Barry Wellman]

this was invented in the late 1960s by Simon & Garfunkel.
They called it "the sound of silence" ;-)

But seriously, I would check with the conversation analysts such as Manny
Schegloff. They've worried about this stuff for 30 years.

 Barry
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> From: joshua raclaw <Joshua.Raclaw at colorado.edu>
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> Hi all,
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> I'm working on a transcription system for transcribing conversations held
> through instant messages (specifically, through AIM)- it's based loosely off
> of the system used in Garcia and Jacobs 1999 for chatroom data.  I'm
> interested specifically in doing micro-analyses of the talk, so using logfiles
> obtained through the program as data just aren't cutting it.  One of my
> problems is recording silences in between utterances, since I'm aiming towards
> measuring them in tenths of a second, and the only transcription software I'm
> aware of can only measure gaps this closely from an audio file.  All obvious
> lack of sound aside, I'm transcribing directly from a quicktime video file of
> the interaction.
>
> Is anyone aware of a transcription program that can precisely measure silences
> straight from a video file?  Additionally, any other known examples from books
> or articles of non-logfile transcription systems for synchronous CMC would be
> appreciated.
>
> Best,
>
> Joshua
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>
> Joshua Raclaw - MA student
> Department of Linguistics
> University of Colorado at Boulder
> http://ucsu.colorado.edu/~raclaw/
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