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DOTE (Distributed Open Transcription Environment)

Guide for DOTE users

Transcription Conventions supported by DOTE

DOTE largely agrees closely a standardised set of transcription conventions in conversation analysis based on Gail Jefferson's innovations for a script-based system. There is an up-to-date specification of the Jeffersonian-style conventions supported in DOTE with additional notes.

DOTE also fully supports an extended set of transcription conventions for multimodal subtier alignment script-based system with some modifications, namely a system developed by Lorenza Mondada. There is an up-to-date specification of the Mondadaian-style conventions supported in DOTE with additional notes.

The default conventions for every new transcript can be set in Settings. For each transcript, the appropriate transcript conventions can be selected in Transcript Options (to override the default).