SayMore overview
As a Language Documenter, you quickly amass a large number of source recordings and artifacts based on them. You need to manage those recordings, document informed consent, transcribe, translate, enter metadata, and, finally, submit to a digital archive. Along the way, you need to keep all these files well organized and labeled. You'll want to keep track of the goals of the project in order to emerge with the desired coverage in areas such as genre, spontaneity, and the social roles of the speaker. You will need some help keeping track of where each session is in your workflow. SayMore can help with all that.
In summary, SayMore is a tool to organize video, audio, image, and various other files, with appropriate metadata.
Work with a Project
Organize Sessions
You can add an empty session or one with content from a new recording. Further, you can add multiple sessions as you download the day’s recordings directly off devices (camera, audio recorder, and so on). In this case, SayMore creates Ids for each session. Each Id will become the name of its folder, as well as the first part of most filenames inside the folder. These are automatically updated if you later change this Id metadata.
Add any kind of file related to the session, including audio and video recordings, photographs, & transcriptions. Keep using your preferred annotation tools, such as ELAN. Enter file metadata for individual files.
Rename files according to a naming standard to set stages of completion of the documentation task.
Extract audio data from a video file.
Play or view files in SayMore, or open them in the associated program.
Organize People Data
Keep a list of participants with applicable metadata in the People tab.
Add evidence of informed consent.
Monitor Progress Towards Your Goals
Review progress information in the Project tab.
Copy, save, or print the progress data.
Archive your sessions and project
Archiving overview describes how SayMore helps you archive your data.
Note
This program may occasionally transmit statistics (e.g., number of times you've run it) to the developers via the internet. This is done to help us know which of our free products are being used, and which features people are finding most useful. This is critically important to setting our priorities for future work.