Media Annotation overview
Here is an overview of how to begin annotating a media file using SayMore. For detailed help with Audacity or ELAN, refer to their respective Help systems.
When you annotate a media stream, you don't do it all at once. You listen to a bit, annotate it, and move on to the next segment. You can add segment boundaries in SayMore with the Careful Speech Tool or Manual Segmentation Tool, or you can do this segmenting outside of SayMore with Audacity or ELAN.
Files
SayMore requires two different files:
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a media file (e.g. a *.wav audio or an *.mp4 video from which you can extract a .wav audio file), and
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an ELAN file that contains the time segment data and textual annotations for that media file (*.annotations.eaf).
Of course you must provide the media file. But for the ELAN file, you can either let SayMore create it for you, or you can provide an existing one (but you have to first make it conform to SayMore's expectations for ELAN files.
Forms of Annotations
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If you use Read an Audacity Label file or the Copy an existing ELAN file option on the Start Annotating tab, you can see those transcriptions and free translations in the Annotations tab.
Then you can record oral translation annotation and careful speech annotations, or edit the transcription and free translation annotations.