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Varietà del francese parlato

Perfettamente in linea con l’ultimo post sugli accenti di Francia, condivido oggi una risorsa utilissima per chi apprende ed insegna la lingua francese, soprattutto nella sua forma orale. Trattasi del DVD allegato al libro “Les variétés du français parlé dans l’espace francophone : ressources pour l’enseignement” curato da Sylvain Detey, Jacques Durand, Bernard Laks & Chantal Lyche...

Print vs onscreen

Chi è già capitato nella sezione Transcription of oral data intuirà forse i motivi per i quali il  seminario “Print or onscreen: better, worse or about the same?” mi ha fortemente attirato. Io che per un anno e più ho testato vari tool di trascrizione dell’orale e che ho infine optato per un software, Exmaralda, che garantisce la possibilità di esportare i dati in vari formati privilegiando...

Exmaralda: a possible integration between time-based and hierarchical data models

Empirical examinations of transcription methods and their implications are singularly lacking in the research literature. This post aims at filling this gap, by recalling the main differences between time-based and hierarchical data models, and by providing some technical information on the feasibility of their integration in one piece of software called Exmaralda. Similarly to the post on transcription tools I have...

Transcription tools

I have been testing transcription tools for years, and the first things I wrote on this topic dates back to more than one year ago (see the post “Useful Software for Transcription” at http://www.dailynterpreter.com/archives/569 or download the poster I presented at Modena International Workshop from the page My Writings). Testing provides food for thought, and thoughts gradually took the form of a paper on the...

Useful Software for Transcriptions

Today’s post will help me leave a mark of what I have been busy with since Monday. After months of readings and recordings (not finished yet), the time is ripe for starting transcriptions and I need to find the software which best suits my needs. To begin with, these are the main features I am looking for: - a software for transcriptions which makes the transcribing activity easier (given that it is so time and...