newTranscript: Upload a new transcript

In nzilbb.labbcat: Accessing Data Stored in 'LaBB-CAT' Instances

Upload a new transcript

Description

This function adds a transcript and optionally a media file to the corpus.

Usage

newTranscript(
  labbcat.url,
  transcript,
  media = NULL,
  transcript.type = NULL,
  corpus = NULL,
  episode = NULL,
  no.progress = FALSE
)

Arguments

labbcat.url	URL to the LaBB-CAT instance
transcript	The path to the transcript to upload.
media	The path to the media to upload, if any.
transcript.type	The transcript type.
corpus	The corpus to add the transcript to.
episode	The transcript's episode.
no.progress	TRUE to suppress visual progress bar. Otherwise, progress bar will be shown when interactive().

Details

NB This method of uploading is an alternative to using transcriptUpload and transcriptUploadParameters.

For this function to work, the credentials used to connect to the server must have at least 'edit' access.

Value

The ID of the new transcript in the corpus

See Also

• transcriptUpload

• transcriptUploadParameters

• transcriptUploadDelete

• updateTranscript

Examples

## Not run: 
## Get attributes for new transcript
corpus <- getCorpusIds(labbcat.url)[1]
transcript.type.layer <- getLayer(labbcat.url, "transcript_type")
transcript.type <- transcript.type.layer$validLabels[[1]]

## upload transcript
newTranscript(
    labbcat.url, "my-transcript.eaf", "my-transcript.wav",
    "", transcript.type, corpus, "episode-1")

## End(Not run)

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