Transcription mode


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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 Options > Transcription mode . If you go to Transcription mode for the first time, a Settings dialog will come up (see Figure 323, “Settings Dialog”) else transcription window is opened with the last used settings (see Figure 331, “Transcription Window” ).

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Transcription 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.

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Transcription 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.