Transcription Mode is a mode designed to increase the speed and efficiency of transcription work. The interface is keyboard-driven and minimizes UI actions. All annotations of a certain tier type are displayed in a vertical list for easy visual access. Transcription mode brings down the transcription work to the bare essentials: listen, type, listen, type, listen, type. To go open transcription mode, select Figure 6.2, “Settings Dialog”) else transcription window is opened with the last used settings (see Figure 6.6, “Transcription Window” ).
> . If you go to Transcription mode for the first time, a Settings dialog will come up (seeTranscription mode presupposes that the initial segmentation of the recording is already done. The rationale for this is that the most efficient work flow for transcribing large amounts of linguistic data is a two-step process: first segmenting the recording into turns —also attributing turns to the appropriate speaker— (this can be done in Annotation mode(see the section called “Annotation mode” )or in the special purpose Segmentation mode(see the section called “Segmentation mode”)), and then transcribing and translating these turns.
If you go to Transcription mode for the first time, a Settings dialog will come up else click on the Figure 6.6, “Transcription Window”). Here you can select the tier types and the number of columns.
button in the settings panel (seeOptions in this dialog :
Font size : Specifies the font size for the table in the Transcription window.
Number of columns : Specifies the number of columns table in the Transcription window Use the to add a column and to remove the last column.
Settings Table
Column : Specifies the column index in the transcription table
Select type for column : Specifies the selected tier type for that column. To select a type click on the <select a type> cell in the table to get the list for available types for that column. Click on the type to select it.
You select tier types, not individual tiers. This is because Transcription mode displays all annotations on all tiers of a certain type in a vertical column.
For the purposes of this description we will assume that the user is working with a file that has six main tier types:po (practical orthography), dt (detailed transcript), tl (literal translation), tf (free translation), tn (translation in lingua franca) and vb (visible behaviour). Our example file contains tiers of these types for two participants, and the overall tier structure looks like this :
In our example, we choose the type po (practical orthography) as the first column. We can leave it at that if we just want to work on the transcript. Or we can display any number of columns next to the primary one, the number of columns depends on the available linked tier types — for instance the free translations and/or a literal translations and/or detailed transcript and/or translations in lingua franca.
For the other columns we can only select tier types that are time-aligned with the first using the stereotype “Symbolic Association” (see Table 5.2, “Linguistic type stereotypes” ). In our example, we can have maximum four columns with tier types dt (detailed transcript), tl (literal translation), tf (free translation) and tn (translation in lingua franca). We cannot choose the tier type vb (visible behaviour)here, because it is not time-aligned with our primary column. Thus the primary column type can be of any type, but the types for other columns should be somehow symbolic associated.
Having selected the tier types , click “Apply”. Now the chosen tier types are displayed in vertical columns (see Figure 6.6, “Transcription Window”), and the two largest differences from the default Annotation mode become visible: (i) all annotations are displayed vertically (top to bottom) rather than horizontally (left to right), and (ii) columns display all annotations of a certain type. For instance, the po (practical orthography) column displays turns from both speakers A and B.
Transcription mode presupposes that you use linguistic types to differentiate the types of information in your tiers. Thus the linguistic type of your free translation tier should be different from the linguistic type of your main transcription.
Once you have selected the types for transcribing, it is possible to select the tiers if the transcription has more than one tier of a type which is selected for other columns. To select the tiers, click the Figure 6.2, “Settings Dialog”. This dialog comes up.
button in the Settings Dialog(seeUsing this dialog you can choose which tiers should be used on which column in the transcription table. This dialog is also used to show or hide tiers from the transcription table. To hide tiers, uncheck the box in the first column.
To hide a group of linked tiers, any one of the following options could be done.
If tier names are shown : right click on the tier name will popup this menu. Select from it.
If tier names are not shown : right click on the row no in the "No" column. This will popup the same menu as before. Select from it.
To hide or show more number of tiers,
select the section called “Selecting tiers for transcription” . Check all the tiers to show up in the table and uncheck the tiers that are to be hidden.
from the above popup menu. This will bring this dialog :Another way to open the above dialog is to click Figure 6.6, “Transcription Window” . This will popup the transcription mode settings dialog (see : Figure 6.2, “Settings Dialog” and click on the button. This will bring the same dialog (see : the section called “Selecting tiers for transcription”).
button from the settings panel in the transcription window (see :Making a tier non-editable is to avoid putting that tier in edit mode while navigating through the table . For instance if some of the tiers of the same type are transcribed and few are not, to avoid the transcribed ones to get in to edit mode the tiers can be freezed(made non-editable). To freeze/unfreeze the tiers, right click on the tier name (if shown) or right click on any of the freezed or unfreezed annotation of the tier will popup either this menu see : Figure 6.5, “Context Menu ” or this menu see :Figure 6.8, “Context Menu for a Annotation”. In the popup menu select to freeze a tier or select to unfreeze the tier.
Transcription mode is built for high-speed transcription work. Once you have selected the tier types for the columns , the table is loaded with the tiers of the selected types. Clicking on Figure 6.2, “Settings Dialog”) will bring this window:
button in the settings dialog(seeOptions available in this window :
: Press this button to toggle the video/settings panel from
left to right and vice versa. The video can also be detached for viewing
independent of the main window. Do to this, right click on the video and click
.
: Play/pause button for the media.
: Play/pause the selection made.
: Clears the selection.
Loop mode : If checked, plays the media of the selected annotation constantly in a loop until a new annotation is selected. Default: unchecked.
Options in Settings Panel
Automatic playback of media : If checked, the annotation is automatically played when it enters into edit mode, else you can manually play the media using TAB or SHIFT+TAB (for details see the section called “Shortcut keys used in this mode”). Default: checked.
Show tier names :If checked, the tier names are shown in the table and hovering over an annotation will give you the time interval of that (see Figure 6.6, “Transcription Window”). If unchecked, colour coding distinguishes different tiers/participants, and hovering over an annotation will give you the tier/participant name (see Figure 6.7, “Transcription Window without showing the tier names”). Default: checked.
Colors only on the "No" column : If the show tier names is unchecked, you can choose whether the color distinction should be displayed all over the table or only in the "No" column. If checked, color difference made only in the "No" column, else the whole table has the color differentiation. Default: unchecked.
Navigate across column : This controls the behaviour of the ENTER i.e decides whether to move to the next annotation in the same column or to move across the columns. If checked, you move across columns (from left to right). If unchecked, you move only within a column (from top to bottom). Default: unchecked.
Scroll current annotation to center : If checked, this mode keeps your current annotation always in the middle of the screen. Default: unchecked.
Figure 6.2, “Settings Dialog”) to select new types or to change the font size or to show/hide tiers.
: Press this button to get the settings dialog (see : This is used to resize the video/settings panel and the
transcription table. Click and drag to resize.
Each cell in the table is the representation of the annotation on a tier. The annotations are sorted/aligned based on the begin time of it. Clicking on any annotation(cell) activates it for editing. You can directly start typing the text for the annotation. After entering the text, press ENTERto save the changes made in the current annotation and to put the next annotation to edit mode. The Navigate across columns setting controls whether you go down within a column or you move across columns (from left to right). There are several ways to put a annotation to edit mode. A single mouse click on an annotation or a right click made on a annotation will put the annotation in edit mode and pops up the context menu below and for other keys see the section called “Shortcut keys used in this mode”.
Other options available in this mode :
right clicking on annotation will popup this menu.
: Saves the changes made to the annotation
: Cancels the changes made to the annotation
: Deletes the current annotation from the tier
: Freezes the tier in the table thus making it non editable
: Hides the group of tiers that are linked with the current editing tier
All the columns are resizeable: just mouse click and drag the boundaries to fit your desired widths.
You can re-order columns on the screen simply by dragging them to the desired location.
The video can also be detached for viewing independent of the main window. Do to this, right click on the video and click
.The wav form can also be hidden if needed. You can do this by unchecking the
from > > . To show the wav form check the option from the same menu.To merge two annotations, first make a right click on the annotation. This will pop up a context menu( see Figure 6.8, “Context Menu for a Annotation”). Then select either or . For detailed information see the section called “Merging annotations”.
This mode only allows to edit the text of the annotation. In order to do some modifications on the annotation, i.e to finely manipulate annotation boundaries or to split a annotation, right click on the annotation. This will popup a menu (see Figure 6.8, “Context Menu for a Annotation”) . Select to jump to this annotation in the annotation mode which allows you do modify the annotations. For detailed information on changes the annotation boundaries see the section called “Changing the boundaries of an existing selection and annotation” and to split annotations see the section called “Split Annotations”
The following shortcut keys are the mainly used default shortcuts in this mode.
ENTER saves the current annotation, moves to the next annotation, and plays the new annotation if the Automatic playback option is selected. The Navigate across columns setting controls whether you go down within a column or you move across columns (from left to right).
ALT+UP arrow moves up to the next cell in the same column and works same as ENTER.
ALT+DOWN arrow moves down to the next cell in the same column and works same as ENTER.
ALT+LEFT and ALT+RIGHT arrows move left and right across columns and also behaves like the ENTER.
TAB plays the current annotation. It acts as a play/pause key, so press it again to pause playback, and press again to continue playing. If a selection is made in the waveform or in the timeline, then TAB will play/pause the selected interval.
SHIFT+TAB plays back the current annotation from the start.
CTRL+A merges the current annotation with the next annotation on tier.
CTRL+B merges the current annotation with the annotation before it on the tier.
SHIFT+DELETE deletes the current annotation.
ESCAPE cancel the changes before committing the annotation.
To see a full list of default shortcuts used in this mode, go to the section called “Editing shortcuts”
-> . To edit/customize the shortcuts see