This tutorial shows you how to measure silences (and speech) automatically in ELAN and how to export the bullets to CLAN. Note: You need to have your audio as a .wav file. Open ELAN Go to ‘File’ and ‘New Click ‘Add Media File’ Select your .wav file and click ‘Open’ Click ‘Ok’ Click on ‘Recognizers’
Exporting to ELAN You may want to make the transcript available to be used in ELAN, which allows for other types of data treatment, as well as a different overview (in a partitur type editor). Here’s how you do it: Open the Commands window. Type chat2elan File in > select the required file > Done
Searching and Coding with COMBO COMBO is a command that runs from the Commands window in CLAN. It is a very flexible tool that can be used for a variety of purposes. Below we will go through five ways of using COMBO. 1) Searching for strings using COMBO 1 Open the Commands window 2 Enter
Thumbnails: Working with Gesture Annotation CLAN thumbnail files for multimodal transcription. Transcripts that include annotations of social actions that are not encoded in the verbal modality can be both difficult to produce, and incredibly challenging to read. Eye-gaze, gestures, posture-shifts, features oriented to in the local environment etc may all be relevant to the unfolding
Embedding Still Images You may want to add still images to your transcript, for example screenshots of documents the participants are referring to in the talk, or a screenshot of the intonation contours. These will then appear when you reach the selected point in the transcript. This is how: Make sure you are not in
Timedur(ation) TIMEDUR is an analytic tool in CLAN that allows researchers to display how much time each participant speaks during an interaction, as well as the total length of pauses between speaker turns, and the amount of time participants speak in overlap with one another. This may, for example, be important for charting a general
Piping PIPING in CLAN refers to the facility for directing the output from one analytic tool (for example COMBO or GEM) to another tool for a second analysis. The output from the combined analyses is then collated into a single output file. For example, should you have annotated a batch of transcripts with a particular
Counting GEMs If you wish to know how many of each GEM you have in your files, you can use the freq command. This is what you do: Open the Command window Type freq File in> select the file or files you wish to analyze Tier > Include @BG: Done Tier > exclude speaker tiers
Making Collections: GEMs You may want to organize certain sequences in your data into a collection of instances of a particular phenomenon or feature of interest, and to subsequently export all of these instances into a single file. To make a collection: In the CLAN file, locate the sequence that you want to add to