Recording speakers of the world’s languages is fun and rewarding, but keeping all the resulting files and meta data organized?  SayMore makes that part fun, too.

Record Project Data

• Enter data about the project as whole, including funding, location, access rights, related publications, etc.

• Attach documents that describe the project or how it was funded.

Organize Session Data

• Pull the day’s recordings directly off your camera or audio device, creating Session folders for each one.
• Enter meta-data about the event as a whole, and also for individual files.
• Add any kind of file related to the session, including audio and video recordings, photographs, & transcriptions.  Keep using your preferred annotation tools, including Elan & Transcriber.  Just use SayMore to keep it all organized.
• Single-click to rename a files according to a naming standard.
• View a media file right in SayMore, or launch an external application to work with it.

Organize People Data

• Enter information about session participants.
• Add evidence of informed consent, be it audio, video, or photographs or a signed form.
• Single-click to rename a file according to a naming standard.

Monitor Progress Towards Your Goals

• View charts and other statistics of your progress

Archive your data

• People working with archives that can ingest IMDI-format xml metada can have SayMore create packages for their project and each session.
• SIL members can use SayMore to quickly submit a package of all the relevant files and metadata too SIL's "RAMP" archive-submission application.

New Features in the Version 3

Project-level Metadata & files

IMDI Archiving, through ARBIL or other programs

New person and session fields.

New "Contributions" Tab for each person, showing all the sessions they've been a part of, and what they did.

The Manual Segmenter Dialog now has a play button on individual segments, and a zoom control.

New Features in the Version 2

• Convert Audio and Video formats to archiving standards
• Careful Speech recording (BOLD)
• Oral Translation recording (BOLD)
• Written transcription tool
• Export to FLEx interlinear
• Export subtitles
• Export Toolbox
• Export to spreadsheet
• Annotations use same file format as ELAN.
• Simple Recording tool for new recordings, without leaving SayMore

Screenshots

See a full list of screenshots at the SayMore website.