I haven't worked with Transana very much so can't really comment. I think
both programs have advantages and disadvantages depending on what one needs
to do. Transcriber worked well for me but may not work well for you. I think
anyone looking for transcription tools should download both and experiment
to see what meets their needs best.
There are other free transcription tools such as Express Scribe
(http://www.nch.com.au/scribe/) but I think Transcriber and Transana are
rather more interesting as they come out of a research environment and are
been widely used and or developed/adapted for linguistic and qualitative
research. You'll get a flavor of this and other work here:
http://www.ldc.upenn.edu/annotation/.
Alan.
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>On Tue, 27 Jan 2004 18:54:27 -0500, Christian Nelson
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>>Thanks for the info. I didn't realize it'd been updated. I suppose that
>>beggars can't be choosers, but when one can choose a system that has
>>support, I'm not clear why one wouldn't. But maybe there's something
>>about Transcriber that makes it better than Transana? If there is, I'd
>>be very interested in learning more about it. Or is it more a case that
>>it's a pain to switch from one piece of software to another when one has
>>already built up a library of transcriptions with the first? Thanks for
>>any (more) info. you can share,
>>Christian Nelson
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