# Transcriber

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{{Short description|Open-source software for transcription and annotation of recorded speech}}
{{For|the process of converting a medium to writing|Transcription (disambiguation){{!}}Transcription}}
{{Infobox software
  |name = Transcriber
  |latest_release_version = 1.5.1
  |latest_release_date = June 6, 2005
  |programming language = [Tcl/Tk](/source/Tcl%2FTk), C
  |operating_system = [Cross-platform](/source/Cross-platform)
  |license = [GPL](/source/GNU_General_Public_License)
}}

'''Transcriber''' is an [open-source software](/source/open-source_software) tool for the [transcription](/source/Transcription_(linguistics)) and annotation of [speech](/source/speech) signals for [linguistic research](/source/Linguistics). It supports multiple hierarchical layers of [segmentation](/source/Text_segmentation), named entity annotation, speaker lists, topic lists, and overlapping speakers. Two views of the sound pressure [waveform](/source/waveform) at different resolutions may be viewed simultaneously. Various [character encodings](/source/character_encodings), including [Unicode](/source/Unicode), are supported.

Annotations from Transcriber may be exported in [XML](/source/XML).  [OASIS](/source/OASIS_(organization))' ''Cover Pages'' publishes the open [DTD](/source/Document_Type_Definition) used by Transcriber.<ref>{{cite web
|url=http://xml.coverpages.org/transcriber.html
|title=Transcriber - Speech Segmentation and Annotation DTD
|date=November 16, 2000
|accessdate=February 20, 2009
|publisher=OASIS}}</ref>

Transcriber is written in [Tcl/Tk](/source/Tcl%2FTk) with the [Snack audio library](/source/Snack_audio_library) and is therefore available on most major platforms. It is distributed under the [GNU General Public License](/source/GNU_General_Public_License). Transcriber has been superseded by TranscriberAG.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://transag.sourceforge.net|title=TranscriberAG a tool for segmenting, labeling and transcribing speech|accessdate=March 11, 2017}}</ref>

==References==
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==Bibliography==
*{{cite journal
|title=Transcriber: development and use of a tool for assisting speech corpora production
|author1=C. Barras |author2=E. Geoffrois |author3=Z. Wu |author4=M. Liberman  |name-list-style=amp |journal=Speech Communication 
|volume=33
|issue=1–2
|date=January 2000
|url=https://trans.sourceforge.net/articles/Transcriber-SpeechComm2000.ps.gz}}
*{{cite journal
|title=Transcribing with Annotation Graphs 
|author1=E. Geoffrois |author2=C. Barras |author3=S. Bird |author4=Z. Wu  |name-list-style=amp |journal=Second International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC)
|pages=1517–1521
|date=May–June 2000
|url=https://trans.sourceforge.net/articles/Transcriber-LREC2000.ps.gz}}
*{{cite journal
|title=Transcriber: a Free Tool for Segmenting, Labeling and Transcribing Speech 
|author1=C. Barras |author2=E. Geoffrois |author3=Z. Wu |author4=M. Liberman  |name-list-style=amp |journal=First International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC)
|pages=1373–1376
|date=May 1998
|url=https://trans.sourceforge.net/articles/Transcriber-LREC1998.pdf}}

==External links==
*[https://trans.sourceforge.net/en/presentation.php Transcriber home page]

Category:Linguistic research software
Category:Free software programmed in Tcl
Category:Free software that uses Tk (software)
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