[Air-l] SCMC transcription suggestions.

[Christian Nelson]

You can use Transana to time the silences, and much else, in a video 
file. And its free!
--Christian Nelson

On Feb 23, 2006, at 1:24 PM, joshua raclaw wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> 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
>
>
>
>
>
> Joshua Raclaw - MA student
> Department of Linguistics
> University of Colorado at Boulder
> http://ucsu.colorado.edu/~raclaw/
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