13.03.2009 Bericht von Thorsten Pehl

Transcriber

Transcriber is a free tool for assisting the manual annotation of speech signals. It provides a user-friendly graphical user interface for segmenting long duration speech recordings, transcribing them, and labeling speech turns, topic changes and acoustic conditions. It is more specifically designed for the annotation of broadcast news recordings, for creating corpora used in the development of automatic broadcast news transcription systems, but its features might be found useful in other areas of speech research.

Transcriber is developed with the scripting language Tcl/Tk and C extensions. It relies on the Snack sound extension, which allows support for most common audio formats, and on the tcLex lexer generator.

Transcriber is distributed as a free software under GNU General Public License. and has been built to support different platforms (Windows XP/2k, Mac OS X and various Linux).

Website of Transcriber
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Usage with USB-Footswitch

Transcriber can be controlled by our  USB-Footswitch f-pro.

1. Plug the Switch to your USB Device, while you hold it pressed.

2. Run: transcriber.exe

3. Unplug the switch. If you now plug it to your computer you can control the playback with the pedal.