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slattery
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Message 17 of 34

03 July 2010 at 6:36am | IP Logged

jerrypettit wrote:

It would o be interesting to know how long it took to do the word by word of "The Linguist". Was there some kind of automated procedure done there? That
seems like an incredible amount of work...

That's right, the word-level alignments would be an incredible amount of work, I wouldn't dream of doing that all manually! I had the help of a forced aligner (fizzer was on
the right track with his suggested algorithm). Even so, there was still a decent amount of manual cleanup work required.

I'm pretty satisfied with "phrase-level" alignments that can be done by hand in Transcriber. It's actually enjoyable work, and probably educational. You listen very carefully
to the L2 language.
I encourage everyone to try it out. Grab an L2 audio and transcript, and fire up Transcriber! Tutorial
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jerrypettit
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Message 18 of 34

03 July 2010 at 6:58am | IP Logged

I got the first chapter of Pinocchio done this afternoon, after working through the learning curve.

I found it easiest at first to just make my "sync markers" at the end of each sentence, and then go through it all a second time to make smaller phrases (which got easier as it went on).

I hadn't been prepared, at first, for the fact that I had to continually use my mouse to place the cursor where I was going to make each next "marker" but I finally got that figured out.

I wish there had been a screencast tutorial of the actual process--it would have saved a bunch of time.

Now I'm struggling with the whole XML thing to be able to "point" to my mp3 and .trs files. I've got a website where I can load the files, and I've looked at the example "Alice in Wonderland" XML--but so far it's a little beyond me...

Edited by jerrypettit on 03 July 2010 at 7:02am
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slattery
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Message 19 of 34

03 July 2010 at 7:14am | IP Logged

jerrypettit wrote:

I got the first chapter of Pinocchio done this afternoon, after
working through the learning curve.

Nice!

jerrypettit wrote:

I hadn't been prepared, at first, for the fact that I had to
continually use my mouse to place the cursor where I was going to make each next "cut"
but I finally got that figured out.

I also use ALT-right or ALT-left quite often to position the audio cursor.

jerrypettit wrote:

I wish there had been a screencast tutorial of the actual process-
-it would have saved a bunch of time.

That would be really valuable. Feel free to create one, if you're good with that sort
of thing.

jerrypettit wrote:

Now I'm struggling with the whole XML thing to be able to "point" to my mp3 and .trs
files. I've got a website where I can load the files, and I've looked at the example
"Alice in Wonderland" XML--but so far it's a little beyond me...

Not a problem, no need to worry about that stuff right now. If you want, I can post
whatever you have into the Library. It's not
really multi-user yet, but it's pretty easy for me to post stuff.

Feel free to PM me and I'll post whatever you've got!
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Hashimi
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Message 20 of 34

05 July 2010 at 10:05am | IP Logged

There are many software that can help in automatizing the transcription process. For example, you can use an mp3 splitter that auto-detect silence between sentences or paragraphs, to split each sentence or paragraph into a seprate file, then, using other software, link each sentences or paragraph in your text with its corresponiding mp3 file (e.g. sentence1 with file1.mp3)

[At this moment, I'm very angry because I'm rewriting this post for the second time. In the first time, someone "musii lil-than" thought that I'm promoting commercial software!)

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Hashimi
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Message 21 of 34

05 July 2010 at 10:09am | IP Logged

Mr./Ms. "musii lil-than",

Can't you just delete what you think is promoting commercial software, and keeping the rest of our post?

This is really outrageous!

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FuroraCeltica
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Message 22 of 34

05 July 2010 at 2:38pm | IP Logged

slattery wrote:

Hi gang,

I've been creating a tool to give me "god-like" powers over content that I want to
listen to, while reading. This experiment was inspired by the L-R (Listening Reading)
method, naturally.

There's a little intro page about it: DingLabs.com

You can try it out, right here in your browser:
reader.dinglabs.com

I've started preparing content in Chinese (my focus), English, Spanish, and French:
library.dinglabs.com
Hopefully, others will be interested in contributing content in this format!

Apologies if it is still rough around the edges. I welcome your feedback, and hope to
make this a very useful tool for myself and others!

Excellent resource
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GrandMan
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Message 23 of 34

27 August 2010 at 2:32am | IP Logged

Great tool, can't wait to see it expand!
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zekecoma
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Message 24 of 34

27 August 2010 at 6:13am | IP Logged

Too bad no German available :(.

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