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In this paper we present a generalization of the tool based on the annotation graph formalism, and on a more modular design. The annotation file format was derived from previous formats used for this task, and many related features were hard-coded. It was originally designed for the broadcast news transcription task.

ANNOTATION EDIT FOR WINDOWS DOWNLOAD MANUAL

'Transcriber is a tool for manual annotation of large speech files. Presented at The Second International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC-2000, May 31 - June 2, 2000, Athens, Greece). 'Transcribing with Annotation Graphs.' By Edouard Geoffrois, Claude Barras, Steven Bird, and Zhibiao Wu. Using the annotation graphs framework recently formalized, adaptation of the tool towards new tasks and support of different data formats will become easier.' As a result of this collective experience, new requirements arose to support additional data formats, video control, and a better management of conversational speech.

Distributed as free software in order to encourage the production of corpora, ease their sharing, increase user feedback and motivate software contributions, Transcriber has been in use for over a year in several countries. The data format follows the XML standard with Unicode support for multilingual transcriptions. It is highly portable, relying on the scripting language Tcl/Tk with extensions such as Snack for advanced audio functions and tcLex for lexical analysis, and has been tested on various Unix systems and Windows. Transcriber was designed for the manual segmentation and transcription of long duration broadcast news recordings, including annotation of speech turns, topics and acoustic conditions. 'Transcriber', a tool for assisting in the creation of speech corpora.

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