We present XTrans, a multi-platform, multilingual, multi-channel transcription application designed and developed by Linguistic Data Consortium. XTrans provides new and efficient solutions to many common challenges encountered during the manual transcription process of a wide variety of audio genres, such as supporting multiple audio channels in a meeting recording or right-to-left text directionality for languages like Arabic. To facilitate accurate transcription, XTrans incorporates a number of quality control functions, and provides a user-friendly mechanism for transcribing overlapping speech. This paper will describe the motivation to develop a new transcription tool, and will give an overview of XTrans functionality.
Cite as: Glenn, M.L., Strassel, S.M., Lee, H. (2009) XTrans: a speech annotation and transcription tool. Proc. Interspeech 2009, 2855-2858, doi: 10.21437/Interspeech.2009-729
@inproceedings{glenn09_interspeech,
author={Meghan Lammie Glenn and Stephanie M. Strassel and Haejoong Lee},
title={{XTrans: a speech annotation and transcription tool}},
year=2009,
booktitle={Proc. Interspeech 2009},
pages={2855--2858},
doi={10.21437/Interspeech.2009-729}
}