SF5 Bus Story transcriptions

We are transcribing videos of children completing the Renfrew Bus Story task in order to score the task.

The Renfrew Bus Story is a task we ran during SF5 (the SEEDlings 5-year-old follow-up). During the task, Shannon read a story from a picture book to the child. Then, she prompts the child to retell the story. Our task is to transcribe the child's "retelling" of the bus story.

First, open up the Google sheet log:

Then, prepare the video.

1. Create a new folder in Working_Files called [subject number]_SF5.

2. Navigate to the participant's folder:

   1. pn-opus/Seedlings/Subject_Files/[subject number]/[subject number]SF5/video_recordings/

3. Open the video file(s) and locate the bus story segment.

   1. It will often (but not always) be at the end of the first video segment.

   2. If you are training, this step will already be done for you. Find the video labeled XX_SF5_bus_story.mp4 and skip to step 5.

4. Trim the video to include only the bus story administration.

5. Save a copy as XX_SF5_bus_story.mp4 in your Working Files folder.

Now it's time to transcribe!

You will need to install ELAN if you don't already have it.

1. Create the ELAN file.

   1. Open ELAN, and click File —> New.

   2. Click Add Media File and add the video file you just created (XX_SF5_bus_story.mp4).

   3. Click Add Template File and add the bus story template:

      1. pn-opus/Seedlings/Subject_Info_and_Paperwork/SF5/bus_story template.etf.

      2. This template includes two tiers: child and experimenter.

   4. Click Okay and save your new file as Working_Files/XX_SF5_bus_story.eaf

      1. If you are training, add your intials to the title, e.g.: XX_SF5_bus_story_SD.eaf

2. Add segmentations.

   1. Do not transcribe Shannon reading the story. Start at the beginning of the child's story, beginning with Shannon's prompt of "Once upon a time..."

      1. This is typically somewhere around 2 minutes into the video.

   2. Click Options —> Segmentation Mode

   3. Add segmentations for each utterance (i.e. each time Shannon or the child says something).

      1. Be sure “Two keystrokes per annotation” is selected at the top of the window.

      2. Add each segment on the correct tier: CHI for the child and EXP for Shannon.

      3. Try to be precise and include all of the utterance and very little silence around it.

      4. If you make a mistake, hover over the segment line (it will turn green) and hit the Delete key.

   4. Useful keyboard shortcuts:

      1. Space = play/pause

      2. Up and down arrows = navigate between the 2 tiers (CHI and EXP)

      3. Enter = mark beginning and end of each utterance

      

Once you've finished segmenting the entire video, transcribe each segment.

1. Click Options —> Transcription Mode

2. In the Transcription mode settings box that pops up, click the drop-down box and select "default-lt". Click Select tiers... and make sure both CHI and EXP are checked. Hit Apply, then Apply.

Now you just have to click the first box, listen to the utterance, and type in what you hear.

1. If you need to fix the segmentation, you can return to Segmentation mode (Options --> Segmentation mode) and edit them.

2. After you type what was said for each segment, you can hit enter and you will automatically be moved to the next segment.

3. Do your best to figure out what the child is saying (but don't add any additional words that they didn't actually say). If you really can't understand them after listening carefully several times, you can enter [unintelligible] for the piece of the segment that you can't understand.

1. Check over the entire file.

   1. Once you've finished transcribing, re-watch the video from the beginning of the task and step back through each transcription that you added to make sure they are accurate.

Notes

• Save as you go so you don't lose any of your work.

• If you have any questions about this process, ask Shannon.

General Transcription Guidelines

From The Renfrew Bus Story Examiner's Manual

• Write transcriptions word for word.

• Indicate significant pauses (6 seconds) by a diagonal line "/"

• Include word and phrase repetitions, fillers, and hesitators.

• Follow incomplete sentences with 3 dots "..."

• Place each "sentence" on a new line (i.e. in a new segment)