Amplifying audio & video in research.
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Researchers
Provide context for AV recordings.
Teachers
Introduce students to annotating AV.
Archivists
Harvest annotations to augment AV metadata.
Featured Projects
Anne Sexton, Sweetbriar College, 1966
This an annotated recording featuring Anne Sexton reading at Sweetbriar in 1966. The recording is held as part of the Anne Sexton Papers at the Harry Ransom Center at the University of Texas, Austin. The annotations were created by Dr. Tanya Clement.
Improving Gentle Transcription Using SENT Metadata Structure
The annotations below were created by Kylie Warkentin to share her work to improve the transcription function of Gentle, a forced aligner, using recordings from SpokenWeb Montreal’s “The Sir George Williams University (SGWU) Poetry Series” collection.
Furious Flower Poetry Center Transcriptions
These transcripts of video recordings from the Furious Flower Collection at James Madison University in Harrisburg Virginia were created by Evan Sizemore. The recordings from Furious Flower document interviews and readings by major African American poets, among them Rita Dove, Yusef Komunyakaa, Sonia Sanchez, and Major Jackson, accompanied by contextualizing information about them.
Comparison Screen for Shoes
This comparison project by Luke Sumpter and Zoe Bursztajn-Illingworth showcases two different aspects of formal film analysis, editing and intertitle, within the 1916 silent film Shoes by Lois Weber.