Tools for interlinear text transcription, glossing, and fieldwork coordination.
Data Collection and Entry 2 tools
Capturing texts in the field and entering them — recording audio, transcribing, glossing, and translating. Recommend starting with the Researcher Panel to set up, delegate, and manage the data collection apps.
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Flextext Editor app.flextext.app
Offline interlinear text editor for FLEx .flextext files — baseline transcription, word-by-word glossing, and free translation. Works on phone, tablet, or desktop without an internet connection.
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Text Recorder record.flextext.app
Phone-based audio recorder for mother-tongue coworkers. Records a new text, prompts for speaker consent, and uploads directly to a shared Google Drive folder.
Data Management and Analysis 6 tools
Working with collected texts — project setup and management, audio segmentation, speaker consent, discourse analysis, corpus coverage, and related field linguistics tools.
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Researcher Panel research.flextext.app
Remote setup and management tool for the Editor and Recorder apps — configure writing systems, link a Google Drive upload folder, generate task and setup links for coworkers, and manage recording settings.
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Audio Segmenter audio-segmenter.flextext.app
Cuts a recording into lines and matches them to the text. Drag the boundaries on the waveform, play each piece, and send the timed text to your researcher or export it as .flextext or ELAN .eaf. Works offline on phone, tablet, or desktop.
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Consent Collector consent.flextext.app
Records a speaker’s informed consent in their own language and keeps a receipt of what was agreed to — with or without a text attached. Works offline, and the recording and receipt travel with the text to your archive.
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Paragraph Analysis Tool pat.flextext.app
Discourse or Semantic Structure Analysis tool that takes the output of these other tools (or FLEx exports or SFM or ELAN) + audio input.
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Corpus Checklist in development
Tracks how complete a text corpus is — genre coverage against a target such as an organisation’s handbook or an archive’s baseline, and which workflow steps each text has been through. Part of the Corpus Keeper project, which keeps FLEx, lameta, and this suite in step; the plan and progress are on GitHub.
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Field Linguistics Extension Tools (FLET) rulingAnts.github.io
Other Field Linguistics Extension Tools (Tone comparison, Dekereke/PA export, Flex Discourse Chart Analysis Tool, and more...