this was invented in the late 1960s by Simon & Garfunkel. They called it "the sound of silence" ;-) But seriously, I would check with the conversation analysts such as Manny Schegloff. They've worried about this stuff for 30 years. Barry _____________________________________________________________________ Barry Wellman Professor of Sociology NetLab Director wellman at chass.utoronto.ca http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~wellman Centre for Urban & Community Studies University of Toronto 455 Spadina Avenue Toronto Canada M5S 2G8 fax:+1-416-978-7162 To network is to live; to live is to network _____________________________________________________________________ On Thu, 23 Feb 2006 air-l-request@listserv.aoir.org wrote:
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1. SCMC transcription suggestions. (joshua raclaw)
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Message: 1 Date: Thu, 23 Feb 2006 11:24:24 -0700 From: joshua raclaw <Joshua.Raclaw@colorado.edu> Subject: [Air-l] SCMC transcription suggestions. To: air-l@listserv.aoir.org Message-ID: <1140719064.43fdfdd86dc6b@webmail.colorado.edu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1
Hi all,
I'm working on a transcription system for transcribing conversations held through instant messages (specifically, through AIM)- it's based loosely off of the system used in Garcia and Jacobs 1999 for chatroom data. I'm interested specifically in doing micro-analyses of the talk, so using logfiles obtained through the program as data just aren't cutting it. One of my problems is recording silences in between utterances, since I'm aiming towards measuring them in tenths of a second, and the only transcription software I'm aware of can only measure gaps this closely from an audio file. All obvious lack of sound aside, I'm transcribing directly from a quicktime video file of the interaction.
Is anyone aware of a transcription program that can precisely measure silences straight from a video file? Additionally, any other known examples from books or articles of non-logfile transcription systems for synchronous CMC would be appreciated.
Best,
Joshua
Joshua Raclaw - MA student Department of Linguistics University of Colorado at Boulder http://ucsu.colorado.edu/~raclaw/
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