Tools and online manuals
The IT service of LLACAN makes available course materials and online manuals for the use of programmes such as ELAN, Toolbox, Endnote etc. (NB: Most documents are in French.)
IT preliminaries and devices for linguistic fieldwork:
See document (in French)
Arbil:
Metadata management and text annotation software
ELAN:
Software for multi-tier annotations of audio and video files
ELAN for linguistic annotation (in French)
ELAN manual of the Max Planck Institute (in English)
ELAN-CorpA: Quick guide (in French)
ELAN: Displaying the pitch curve and the intensity curve in ELAN (in French)
ELAN: Audio synchronisation of a text annotated in Toolbox (in French)
ELAN: Creating an ELAN file from a selection made in another ELAN file (in French)
ELAN: Audio synchronisation of a text annotated – the easy way (in French)
ELAN: segmentation of an audio file into prosodic units (in French)
ELAN-CorpA: Search by command line (in French)
ELAN: Replace french gloses (tier type 'ge') by english glosses
ELAN-Tools (Python Tools for ELAN)
Elan2Conll (from ELAN to Conll - SUD)
Word
Macro to create a table (with 2 empty lines for glosses) with the words of a sentence macroGrille
Endnote:
Intelligent management of bibliographic references for research: Official site of Endnote (in English)
Short summary Endnote online (in French)
Praat:
Praat is free software for the analysis of acoustic speech signals: Official site of Praat (in English)
Praat, introduction (Jean-Philippe Goldman, University of Geneva, 6 pp.) (in French)
Praat, tutorial (Pascal van Lieshout, University of Toronto, translated by Ch. Chanard, 27 pp.) (in French)
EasyAlign: a device for automatic phonetic alignment under Praat (unige.ch) (in English)
Praat script resources (ucla.edu) (in English)
Praat scripting tutorial (uva.nl) (in English)
Shoebox/Toolbox:
Shoebox and its successor Toolbox are programmes to manage data from linguistic and anthropological fieldwork.
Short summary online (in French)
Technical notes:
- Shoebox 4 manual (in French)
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Short summary of Toolbox (in French)
- Text import (in French)
- Segmentation in Toolbox (the parser principle) (in French)
- Wordlists, concordances (in French)
- Fields and the structure of lexical entries (MDF) (in French)
- Export of a dictionary from Shoebox to HTML (in French)
- From Shoebox to XML (in French)
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Conversion of a transcription file in Word into a Toolbox file and synchonisation of the Toolbox file with its sound file in ELAN (in French)
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Converting a text annotated in Toolbox and exported to XML (text type) into HTML (in French)
Entering special characters in Windows:
The operating system provides a pre-defined collection of international keyboards. There are devices such as MSKLC (Keyboard Layout Creator) of Microsoft and Keyman of TavulteSoft which allow users to create their own individual keyboards and to make them accessible to the system, i.e. to programmes such as Word, Excel, Shobox etc.
Download the LLACAN AFU keyboard for African languages: AFU for Windows, and AFU Keylayout for Mac, and also for Windows laptop without < and > keys :AFUQwerty (afuqwert)
Android Keyboards
Project management:
Tips and tricks to design a project, find financial support for a project and manage a project:
Short summary for PhD students (in French)
Audio equipment for the fieldwork, used at LLACAN
