Dear Alan
I have no idea from your site (a) what the price (range) is, and (b) why
should I use it compared to say Martin or Nudist? Maybe you could give a one
line answer?
Peter French
Australia
----- Original Message -----
From: Alan Cartwright <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Friday, July 21, 2000 2:25 AM
Subject: RE: Transcribers needed!
> I am please to say that my new programme the Code-A-Text transcription and
> Note Keeping system (CTANKS) is now available from my web site.
> Regards
> Alan Cartwright
>
> Transcription of audio and video files.
> CTANKS can be used to dictate, record and copy audio files onto a
computer.
> It can play and provides facilities for transcribing both audio and video
> files. The main Document Editor Window contains most of the features found
> on a mechanical transcribing machine and these can be controlled from
> either the keyboard or by use of the mouse. Like most word processors it
> contains a spell checker.
>
> Transcriptions made within CTANKS have a number of distinct features.
These
> include the ability to create "linked" Documents where the text and media
> (sound and video) are connected by hypertext. When linked playing the
media
> presents the text and vice versa. This feature means that complete media
> files do not have to be transcribed as you can instantly return to the
> section that has not been fully transcribed.
>
> Transcriptions made within CTANKS can then be output to other applications
> as normal word processor documents. Knowing the link between the text and
> the media it is therefore easy to refer back to the document within CTANKS
> and to retrieve the original media.
>
> This interchange can be taken further. Reports written in other
> applications can be copied into CTANKS, and the media linked text
inserted
> into the report. If saved as a web document these can be distributed and
> the readers will be able to hear and see any underlying media. CTANKS can
> also edit sound files in WAV format. This facility means that only the
> parts of the original recording that are included in a document need be
> distributed. If a document contains references to more than one WAV file
> CTANKS can extract the sound from each of the WAV files and combine them
> into a single file.
>
> Document Analysis.
> CTANKS is an extended word processor with a range of facilities which
> include the capacity to code texts using natural language, undertake
> complex searches and create new documents based upon the results. These
> features mean that CTANKS can be used to study both text and media based
> documents.
>
> The user can code documents by adding annotations, text in brackets, long
> comments and audio comments (pieces of dictation) to the paragraphs within
> a document. Boolean searches (AND, OR and NOT combinations of words) can
> then be focused on the main body of the text or any combination of the
text
> and any of these code forms. You can, for instance, search comments
> attached to audio or video files which have not been transcribed.
>
> The output from such a search is directed into a report, which is a new
> document which contains the sections which meet the search criteria These
> can be selected from more than one document. If the documents were linked
> to media files then the links are retained. The Report Editor contains a
> wide range of batch editing facilities which can, for instance,
> automatically remove all codes from a report and also add line or
paragraph
> numbers.
>
> These reports can be saved as normal word processor documents or directed
> to a web browser where their links with the media can be
> retained. Clicking on the text of a linked document in Internet Explorer
> causes the attached media to play.
>
> Note keeping.
> CTANKS has an number of features which make it ideal for keeping complex
> notes. This is particularly the case when applied to clinical notes, field
> notes or other forms of note keeping where the user may wish to keep a set
> of notes, which are purely descriptive, separate from notes which contain
> their observations.
>
> This can be achieved by entering the descriptive note into the main text
of
> the document and the observations and comments into the comments section.
> CTANKS can present the document either with or without the comments
visible.
>
> Note keeping is best done immediately after the event it describes but it
> is often difficult to write notes then. CTANKS has a number of features
> which can help with this. The append feature allows the user to type the
> note and simply append it to the end of an existing document, without the
> need to open the original document.
>
> The dictating features can also be useful aids in note keeping. If you do
> not have time to type a note you can use CTANKS dictating features to
> either dictate a sound file which can be transcribed later or add an audio
> comment which can be appended and the full note added when required.
> Alan Cartwright PhD
> Code-A-Text Ltd.
> Email [log in to unmask]
>
> CISAID: Powerful Multi-Media Software for Analysing Interviews and
Dialogues.
> CTANKS: Word processing, Recording, Transcription, Searching and Report
> Generation in a single user friendly package.
>
> Information at
> Code-A-Text Web Page <http://www.code-a-text.co.uk>
>
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