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Interview transcription and annotation tools

I was looking around for free audio labeling and segmentation tools to facilitate working with the hour-long interview files from contextual inquiry. Standard audio editors such as Goldwave allow you to drop markers but annotation is normally not possible, especially if it is desired to have hierarchical notes.

Praat and Transcriber are both made for linguists and can annotate on the phoneme-laval data, but both can also handle long audio files. I am currently test-driving both programs to see which one fits my work flow better.

LDC's Linguistic Annotation page may have more links.