FOLKER 1.2

FOLKER is a desktop editor for time-aligned transcription and annotation of audio and video recordings of spoken language. Developed by the Archive of Spoken German (AGD) at the Leibniz Institute for the German Language (IDS), Mannheim, it supports the FOLK project and helps researchers, students, and educators produce consistent, high-quality transcripts of conversational data.

Key capabilities include:

• Waveform-based playback and precise, segment-level timing
• Efficient multi-speaker transcription and speaker management
• Support for established transcription conventions used in German conversation analysis
• Annotation layers for events and linguistic phenomena
• Built-in checks that promote consistency and transcription quality
• Project and metadata management for corpus-building workflows
• Interoperability with common tools and formats used in corpus and conversation linguistics

FOLKER is optimized for spoken German but can be applied to other languages and a range of research and teaching scenarios, including conversation analysis, corpus creation, and transcription training. It streamlines the end-to-end transcription process while improving comparability and reproducibility across projects.

FOLKER is developed by AGD IDS Mannheim. The most popular version of this product among our users is 1.1. The name of the program executable file is FolkerWithSun.exe.