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TrsToVtt

Converts Transcriber .trs files to Web VTT subtitles

As WebVTT is a subtitle format, not related to a linguistic annotation tool, all annotations that Transcriber supports are lost during this conversion, including:

  • topics
  • comments
  • noises
  • phrase language annotations
  • named entity annotations
  • lexical tags
  • pronounce tags

Although WebVTT does not support meta-data, the meta-data that is present in the Transcriber transcript is included in the .vtt file as NOTEs, including:

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

Deserializing from “Transcriber transcript” text/xml-transcriber

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

Serializing to “WebVTT subtitles” text/vtt

Command-line configuration parameters for serialization:
--nonWordPattern=(\([0-9]+\.[0-9]+\))|([\p{Punct}&&[^_]]) Regular expression to identify non-word characters for joining to a neighboring words e.g. (([0-9]+.[0-9]+)) ([\p{Punct}&&[^_]]) - set this blank to simply tokenize on spaces.