Santa Barbara Corpus of Spoken American English

Markup Instructions for Santa Barbara Corpus of Spoken American English (SBCSAE)

****SBCSAE PART 3 ****

The tel-trans tool is still in development - your comments and recommendations are appreciated.

Task:
        The task for part 3
            a) active editing of transcripts
            b) correction and insertion of timestamps
            c) application of ldc conventions
            d) second-passing the completed files

Conventions to use for SBCSAE transcription

Instructions:
On the command line run:

% /pkg/ldc/talkbank/applications/teltrans/bin/csae2

An empty split screen window will appear - from the drop down menu under "File" select an audio file "file.wav" from PART 3,

/mnt/unagi/spd22/CSAE/trans_pt3/

and after this has been loaded, the corresponding transcript file (ending in .txt)

Please NOTE - it still takes a moment to load the wav file.

Entering timestamps
These transcripts do contain the timestamp for apparent starting point of the utterences.

When you use Cntrl-g to enter a timestamp, note that there is a red indicator that flashes to the left of the transcription row that indicates the changed time has been registered.

Key binding Comment

Play selected waveform plays selected

Play selected line

Go to next /previous line arrow keys up/down

Insert new line

Copy line from transcript Control -e if you select a time in the waveform, THEN use this shortcut, the line will be copies with the new timestamp

Insert new time Control - g tricky at the moment - please be certain that the time is correct.

Zoom in to waveform by 10% Control -i

Zoom out from waveform by 10% Control -o

Select waveform region M1 - drag/release

Expand waveform region to the right Control -v

Compress waveform region from the right Control -c

Expand waveform region to the left Control -z

Compress waveform region from the left Control -x

Mouse control

select waveform region M2 - drag/release

Editing movement Control - arrow keys left/right it is not possible to use control up/down to skip between the same line

Go to start of line being edited Control - a

Go to end of line being edited Control - e

	Key binding	Comment
Play selected waveform		plays selected
Play selected line
Go to next /previous line	arrow keys up/down
Insert new line
Copy line from transcript	Control -e	if you select a time in the waveform, THEN use this shortcut, the line will be copies with the new timestamp
Insert new time	Control - g	tricky at the moment - please be certain that the time is correct.

Zoom in to waveform by 10%	Control -i
Zoom out from waveform by 10%	Control -o
Select waveform region	M1 - drag/release
Expand waveform region to the right	Control -v
Compress waveform region from the right	Control -c
Expand waveform region to the left	Control -z
Compress waveform region from the left	Control -x

Mouse control
select waveform region	M2 - drag/release

Editing movement	Control - arrow keys left/right	it is not possible to use control up/down to skip between the same line
Go to start of line being edited	Control - a
Go to end of line being edited	Control - e