Introduction

This is an introduction to BLIP lab’s BELA transcription convention (version 2.0.0a21.post5). Follow this protocol exactly.

Please check this guide’s FAQ section before asking your supervisor questions about our transcription protocol.

ELAN’s official manual can be found here

To download ELAN, please use these links:

• Windows users
• macOS users

Ensure you download the full and latest version, not ‘Simple-ELAN’. As of 10th March 2022, ELAN 6.3 is the latest version.

BLIP Lab’s playlist of video tutorials on the fundamentals of ELAN transcription can be found here.

Using ELAN

• Definitions
• Dependent Tiers
• Making A New ELAN Page
• Transcribing
• Controlled Vocabularies
• Transcribing Dependent Tiers

BELA Convention

• Guide to all your tiers
• Guide to Non-Verbal Transcription
• Guide to Baby Babbling
• Language Tag List
• List of Special Codes
• Privacy Matters
• General transcription Guide/Resources

FAQs

• Frequently Asked Questions

Available Videos on the Wiki

Most of these videos are different from the videos in the Youtube playlists, except for the Segmentation mode videos.

• Segmentation Mode (Part 1) - Two-Key Annotation

• Segmentation Mode (Part 2)- Adjacent Annotations

• Segmentation Mode (Part 3)

• Annotation Mode

• Controlled Vocabularies (Part 1)

• Controlled Vocabularies (Part 2) - Exporting

• Controlled Vocabularies (Part 3) - Importing

• Transcription of Multiple Tiers

• Setting Up Dependent Tiers

• Baby Utterance Labelling