Record Oral Translation annotations
After you create an annotation file, you can record an oral translation annotation for each segment. You need a microphone and speakers connected to the computer. Try to keep the microphone at the same distance from your mouth for all segments to help make sure the volume level is consistent.
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Click the
Sessions tab. -
In the Sessions (left) pane, click the session that has the media (
or 
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In the right pane, click the annotation file (
<name>.<type>.annotations.eaf).The individual segments appear in rows in the Annotations tab. Any transcriptions or translations you added in ELAN or in Audacity appear in columns.
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Click
Oral Annotations Tools, and then click Oral Translation.The Oral Translation Recorder dialog box opens. There is the Source Audio track and the Oral Annotation track.
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Click the segment you want to hear, and then do one of the following:
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Press and hold the SPACEBAR key, click Listen to this segment (
), or click and hold 
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When the segment as fully played, the focus moves to the Speak 
button and the Oral Translation track.
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To record an Oral Translation annotation for that segment, click Speak
, or press and hold the SPACEBAR key, while you carefully speak it into the microphone.The focus moves to the Listen to this segment (
) button in the next segment, so you can repeat the steps above for that segment. -
For any segment, click and hold the
button and speak again to record an new oral translation annotation for that segment.
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When all the segments have a quality oral translation annotation, click OK.
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In the right pane, click the
<name>.<type>.oralAnnotations.wav file.
The Generated Audio tab appears.
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Click
Play to hear the Source and Careful recordings (if recorded), and the Translation recording, one segment at a time.
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Click the original source file, and then enter metadata about the oral annotations file in the Contributors tab, and if necessary in the Note tab.
Tip
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You can select (
) Ignored to ignore a segment or Undo to stop ignoring it. -
Press the b key on your keyboard to listen again to a source audio segment that does not yet have an oral translation.