I fail to find a manual / helpfile / documentation for SayMore (could just be me), and I see no screenshots showing transcriptions of multiple speakers, and / or possibility of commentary time-aligned with sound/transcript. (And I am on a work computer where I can’t download the software just to try it without sweet-talking the tech people in a different city…)
So, if there is a manual I’ll look it up, else, could someone tell me of the openness/limitations of the correspondence of tiers in a program like ELAN for example? (And/or upload screenshots from which I can deduce the answers…)
Sorry, SayMore does not support multivoice transcription. For single voice, you can transcribe in Saymore and then open in ELAN for further tiers (SayMore uses ELAN-format files).
And of course you can use SayMore just for the metadata, and do all your transcription work in ELAN.
Thanks a lot for your swift reply! Just to say I eventually did find the page explaining what SayMore doesn’t do (excellent idea!).
Yes I did see the screenshots, but for (now) obvious reasons none showing multiple speaker transcripts! … so you can export to ELAN and add tiers, but then it “won’t fit” anymore if you try to get it back into SayMore, right?
Actually, I want more tiers also for various types of commentary and so on (time-aligned, not just that otherwise really useful function where you can associate misc. other files etc. to your sound file+transcription), so let’s consider this a feature request
But it does seem like a really excellent piece of software in many ways, perhaps esp. for meta data, so many thanks for providing it!
