Higgins Annotation Tool Copyright © 2009-2011, Gabriel Skantze. The Higgins Annotation Tool can be used to transcribe and annotate speech with one or more audio tracks (such as dialogue). For each audio track, a number of audio segments are defined. Each audio segment can then be transcribed. Within each transcription, text segments (such as syntactic phrases) may be defined. A set of feature-value pairs may then be annotated for the tracks, audio segments and text segments. The annotation is saved in an XML format (schema). To start a new annotation, you can either open a wav-file (in stereo or mono) directly in the tool (choosing "New..." form the File menu), or precompile the annotation XML file and open it. To open and annotate more than one audio file simultaneously, you must choose the latter option. Download Binaries for Windows (a single .exe file): Download Higgins Annotation Tool (updated 2011-03-10) Keyboard shortcuts Playing Control-Space Play selection, current track Control-Alt-Space Play selection/segment, all tracks Control-F1 Control-F2 etc. Play selection/segment from 10%, 20% ... 90%, current track. Control-Alt-F1 Control-Alt-F2 etc. Play selection/segment from 10%, 20% ... 90%, all tracks. Esc Stop playing Segments Control-A Create audio segment from waveform selection Control-T Create text segment from text selection Navigation Down Move to next audio segment Up Move to previous audio segment Control-Down Move to next audio segment in the same track Control-Up Move to previous audio segment in the same track Alt-Down Move to next non-segment Alt-Up Move to previous non-segment Control-B Move cursor from feature annotation to transcription Control-Z Zoom selection Screenshot Contact If you have any questions regarding the tool, please contact Gabriel Skantze: gabriel@speech.kth.se