Upcoming Events

Our Summer 2012 term data session will be held on Wednesday 25th July, 2-5pm (room 201 Chandler House, UCL).  Data will come from recently collected calls from the Parkinson's UK help-line.

Please contact Steven if you would like to participate.


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Software for video and audio manipulation

Dropbox software

Click on the link above to find out more about Dropbox file syncing and sharing - it's free and very useful if you want to keep files on different computers updated (without constantly using a datakey!).
There's also the facility to have a public folder on your desktop to which invited people can access individual files - e.g. a video data files.

Womble MPEG Video Wizard DVD

Allows you to edit mpeg video clips on your computer. Features include captions, ability to make compilations of short clips, 'clean-up' features such as brightness and volume adjustment, fade in/fade out. Use this software to make clips for presentations, and to make collections of phenomena from a larger data sample for transcription.

Click here to download a free trial version.

CAIR members currently using this software who can tell you more or answer any queries: Suzanne Beeke, Juliette Corrin, Merle Mahon.

Virtual Dub

Allows you to strip the audio stream from an mpeg video clip, and save it as a .wav file for speech analysis, in PRAAT for example. Features include filters such as 'low pass' to clean up the sound quality.

Click here to download a free full version.

Queries to Suzanne Beeke, Juliette Corrin, Merle Mahon.

Software for Transcription

Videolab

A tool developed in the Department of Human Communication Science, UCL, which combines microsoft word with a video playback system to allow you to transcribe data.

Click here to download a free full version.

If you have problems downloading it, contact Mike Coleman, 02076794213. Currently there is no videolab tutorial available, but you will find a document giving guidance on its use by following the link above.

Elan

A tool for transcription which allows you to annotate features such as gesture, eye gaze etc. on different tiers. These are displayed over time on screen, so you get a picture of how features overlap. It is possible to annotate a speech wave as well as a video clip. Currently being used by DCAL to analyse sign language.

Click here to download a free full version.

A useful guide for getting started can be found here. Queries to Juliette Corrin, Merle Mahon.

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