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TrsToTextGrid

Converts Transcriber .trs files to Praat TextGrids

Praat does not support meta-data as Transcriber does, so the following meta-data is lost during conversion:

  • version
  • version date
  • air date
  • scribe
  • language
  • participant gender
  • participant dialect
  • participant accent
  • participant scope

The following Transcriber annotations are not supported by Praat, and are lost:

  • phrase language annotations
  • named entity annotations
  • topic tags

The following Transcriber annotations are not directly supported by Praat, and are converted using bracketed, inline conventions within annotation labels:

  • comments
  • noises
  • lexical tags
  • pronounce tags

To disable these conventions (and thus lose these annotations during conversion) use the –useConventions=false command line switch.

Deserializing from “Transcriber transcript” text/xml-transcriber

Command-line configuration parameters for deserialization:
--topicLayer=Layer Topic tags
--commentLayer=Layer Commentary
--noiseLayer=Layer Noise annotations
--languageLayer=Layer Inline language tags
--lexicalLayer=Layer Lexical tags
--pronounceLayer=Layer Manual pronunciation tags
--entityLayer=Layer Named entities
--scribeLayer=Layer Name of transcriber
--versionLayer=Layer Version of transcriber
--versionDateLayer=Layer Version date of transcriber
--programLayer=Layer Name of the program recorded
--airDateLayer=Layer Date the program aired
--transcriptLanguageLayer=Layer The language of the whole transcript
--participantCheckLayer=Layer Participant checked
--genderLayer=Layer Gender - participant ‘type’
--dialectLayer=Layer Participant's dialect
--accentLayer=Layer Participant's accent
--scopeLayer=Layer Participant's ‘scope’

Serializing to “Praat TextGrid” text/praat-textgrid

Command-line configuration parameters for serialization:
--commentLayer=Layer Commentary
--noiseLayer=Layer Noise annotations
--lexicalLayer=Layer Lexical tags
--pronounceLayer=Layer Manual pronunciation tags
--renameShortNumericSpeakers=Boolean Short speaker names like ‘S1’ should be prefixed with the transcript name during import
--useConventions=Boolean Whether to use text conventions for comment, noise, lexical, and pronounce annotations