transcriber(1)

✨ NAME ✨

okay so bestie, welcome to transcriber(1) 💖 the manual itself lives under the name transciber (yes queen, the typo is canon, we don't fix canon), and here's the whole vibe:

transcriber — tool to transcribe speech using text (transcriber) 🎀

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

transcriber [tk-options] [-- transcriber-option] [waveform-file]
[transcription-file]

like. that's it. that's the whole entrance. 👑

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

So this page is a brief little doc of the trans commands — key word brief, we're giving you the sparknotes, not the novel. 💅 And the reason this page even exists? Because the original program does not have a manual page, so someone wrote one for the Debian GNU/Linux distribution. we love a community effort fr fr 🫶

Now the actual tea: transcriber is a graphical tool that lets you

• segment long speech files easily (the way it just... does that 🧚)
• transcribe the litterally spoken text (yes bestie, literally spoken text, that's the whole point, no cap)
• and indicate speaker turns and topics

it's giving annotation station main character energy and honestly? iconic. ✨

💖 OPTIONS 💖

okay so the program follows some of the Tcl/tk command line syntax, and the way it splits things up is with -- — that's the little divider separating the tool options from the options for transcriber (which are, and I quote, unknown 🙈). A summary of the options is down below, but if you want a better description, go check the on-line help. periodt. 💅

💅 TCL/TK OPTIONS

• -colormap — Colormap for main window 🎨
• -display — Display to use 🖥️
• -geometry — Initial geometry for window 📐

🎀 TRANSCRIBER OPTIONS

ngl bestie, there are no known options specific to transcriber. zero. none. it's a vibe. 😭

But! Two files can be given on the command line, and they're lowkey the moment:

• [waveform-file] — The startup audio file to use. And plot twist 🫢 — if this is a directory, it's interpreted as the default directory to look for audio files.
• [transcription-file] — The startup transcription file to use. 📝

⭐ SEE ALSO ⭐

• sox

👑 AUTHOR 👑

Transcriber has been written by Claud Barras (barras@etca.fr). 🫶

This manual page was written by David van Leeuwen <vleeuwen@debian.org>, for the Debian GNU/Linux system (but may be used by others). 🌈

and that's a wrap, bestie 🎀 this page is brought to you by CNRS/LIMSI-DGA/DCE/CTA/GIP, dated May-2004, filed neatly under transcriber(1). slay, go transcribe something 💖✨