Useful software

Mind map and conceptual mapping programs

CmapTools

CmapTools is a mind mappind and concept mapping tool chich is developed by an american university/research collaboration. It is easy to use and can be recommended! FREEWARE

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Compendium

Compendium is a very full featured software for mind mapping and dialogue mapping. Java based so runs on Windows, OsX and unixes. FREEWARE/Open Source

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Text analysis and transcription

CLAN

CLAN has two parts. The first part is the CLAN editor which can be used to edit files in either CHAT or CA (Conversation Analysis) format. The editor also provides a wide range of additional functions, such as audio and video playback, linkage to audio and video, fonts for Roman and non-Roman orthographies, data validation, adding codes to files, and shipping data to other programs. The second part of CLAN is the set of data analysis programs. These programs are run from a separate window called the Commands window. The results of the analytic programs are sent to the CLAN Output window. FREEWARE

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Transcriber

Transcriber is a tool for assisting the manual annotation of speech signals. It provides a user-friendly graphical user interface for segmenting long duration speech recordings, transcribing them, and labeling speech turns, topic changes and acoustic conditions. It is more specifically designed for the annotation of broadcast news recordings, for creating corpora used in the development of automatic broadcast news transcription systems, but its features might be found useful in other areas of speech research. Works for windows, linux and osx FREEWARE

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