You can use Transana to time the silences, and much else, in a video file. And its free! --Christian Nelson On Feb 23, 2006, at 1:24 PM, joshua raclaw wrote:

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/ _______________________________________________ The air-l@listserv.aoir.org mailing list is provided by the Association of Internet Researchers http://aoir.org Subscribe, change options or unsubscribe at: http://listserv.aoir.org/listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org

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