An integrated FLEx–ELAN workflow for linguistic analysis with multiple transcriptions and translations and multiple participants.

Bodt, Tim

Abstract

This paper presents a workflow integrating the linguistic software ELAN and FLEx. This workflow allows the user to move between these two software applications to refine the transcription, translation, and annotation of the speech of multiple participants. The workflow also enables the addition of multiple writing systems for vernacular and analysis languages. The paper is based on a manual that explains in a simple and visual manner how to achieve such a set-up in both ELAN and FLEx. The workflow allows language consultants to make changes and additions to transcriptions and translations in ELAN in a script and language that they are most comfortable with. In this way, the workflow fills a gap where language consultants with limited computer literacy and command of the major interface languages of software programmes can still work on the basic analysis of recordings of a language that they know well.

Citation

Bodt, T. (2022). An integrated FLEx–ELAN workflow for linguistic analysis with multiple transcriptions and translations and multiple participants. Language Documentation & Conservation, 16, 417-452

• Journal Article Type: Article
• Acceptance Date: Jul 28, 2022
• Publication Date: Dec 1, 2022
• Deposit Date: Jul 15, 2023
• Publicly Available Date: Jul 15, 2023
• Journal: Language Documentation and Conservation
• Print ISSN: 1934-5275
• Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
• Peer Reviewed: Peer Reviewed
• Volume: 16
• Pages: 417-452
• Publisher URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10125/74686