Spencer's new browser

[Brian MacWhinney]

Dear CABankers,

Spencer Sugarman has built a new way of playing back AphasiaBank
interactions over the web direct from your browser. The only catch is
that your browser has to be Firefox and you have to have JavaScript
enabled. However, if you can use Firefox on a broadband connection,
then I think you will find this facility really great. To try it out,
just go to http://talkbank.org and click on the link to the bottom
left called Browser Access. The browser plug-in will start up and you
will get instructions on how to proceed. If you click on CABank you
will log in and then see some more folders. Let's say you pick first
CABank, then JOC, and then 3-beauty.cha. Once the transcript opens
up, just double click on a line and the video will play in sync. The
system will scroll through the transcript and turn pages as you go.
Personally, I really love this way of accessing and browsing the
interactions. We are also developing a system within this facility
for commenting on the interactions. More about that later.

Best wishes and comments invited,

-- Brian MacWhinney

[M.A.Forrester]

Dear Brian

This is a really good facility. It would be great to see it with a full 'CA' orthographic script, and page layout in CA style. Of course we always want more.....and at the moment this, as you say, an ecellent way to access and browse interactions.

Mike


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From: cab...@googlegroups.com [cab...@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Brian MacWhinney [ma...@cmu.edu]
Sent: 01 May 2009 03:13
To: cab...@googlegroups.com
Subject: Spencer's new browser

[Brian MacWhinney]

Dear Mike,

I'm glad you like this. The transcript for beauty.cha was not a
CA one, but the interaction was interesting. The form being displayed
by the browser depends totally on the form submitted by the
contributor. The facility also works over on CHILDES at
childes.psy.cmu.edu with a link in the upper right area. For some
really nice CA-coded data on a little girl called Ella, you can take a
look at the /Eng-UK/Forrester data.
For some nice CA data linked to audio, not video, you can listen
to the GailPort data. For those there is currently a bit of a problem
because we haven't yet formatted the overlap marks to the 4-forms
version needed for good alignment, but I will take a shot at doing
that in the next weeks.

-- Brian