PLIN011 Transcription of Spoken Czech

Faculty of Arts
Spring 2021
Extent and Intensity
0/2/0. 3 credit(s). Type of Completion: z (credit).
Teacher(s)
Mgr. Bc. Lucie Brychtová (lecturer)
Mgr. Dana Hlaváčková, Ph.D. (lecturer)
Guaranteed by
doc. PhDr. Zdeňka Hladká, Dr.
Department of Czech Language – Faculty of Arts
Contact Person: Jaroslava Vybíralová
Supplier department: Department of Czech Language – Faculty of Arts
Timetable
Thu 8:00–9:40 G13
Prerequisites
Previous experience with transcriptions is an advantage, but they are not necessary.
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is also offered to the students of the fields other than those the course is directly associated with.
The capacity limit for the course is 20 student(s).
Current registration and enrolment status: enrolled: 0/20, only registered: 0/20, only registered with preference (fields directly associated with the programme): 0/20
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Course objectives
Students will experience how to acquire and annotate language data for speech analysis. This collection of data will serve to practical use – it will contribute to the creation of normative data, "indicators" of phenomena that may occur in everyday spoken language. The standard will serve as a control group for possible comparison with a set of patient recordings with impaired communication ability. Each student will be tasked to make 3 recordings of spontaneous speeches in Czech according to specified parameters and rewrite them according to transcription rules taken from the practice. These three recordings will be from one speaker of a certain age category (50–65 years), which will include a description of the picture, spontaneous production on the given topic and repetition of the sentence. The freely available Transcriber tool (http://trans.sourceforge.net) will be used for transcription. If interested, students can continue the work and contribute to the understanding of spoken language in relation to impaired communication skills.
Learning outcomes
Student will be able to:
- understand the issues of acquiring and annotating spoken data;
- understand phonetics of the Czech language;
- provide transcriptions according to prescribed rules;
- work with Transcriber app.
Syllabus
  • 1. Familiarizing students with the issue.
  • 2. Assigning the rules for uploading and transcribing the data, getting familiar with Transcriber app.
  • 3. Sample transcriptions, practice transcription.
  • 4. Recording and consultation space.
  • 5. Editing and transcribing the recording.
  • 6. Transcription of the recording.
  • 7. Transcription of the recording.
  • 8. Final evaluation of the translation process.
Literature
  • Kuebler, Sandra, Zinsmeister Heike. Corpus Linguistics and Linguistically Annotated Corpora. Bloomsbury Academic, 2014.
Teaching methods
Workshop (transcripts), independent work (recordings), discussion and consultation, cooperation with practitioners.
Assessment methods
Active participation in seminars, providing three recordings in good quality and their transcription according to given annotation rules.
Language of instruction
Czech
Further Comments
Study Materials
The course is also listed under the following terms Spring 2011, Spring 2012, Spring 2013, Spring 2018, Spring 2020, Autumn 2021, Spring 2025.
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