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Why should Spanish diacritic characters be used?
The use of Spanish diacritics can mark grammatical differences between identical word forms, therefore potentially altering the meaning of the word and utterance. Including them will make the transcript more valid. The use of an accent can affect how the word gets counted as part of a certain word list (e.g., "el" as the direct article meaning "the" vs. "él" the personal pronoun meaning "he").
Are these characters built into the SALT program?
The Spanish diacritic characters are not built into the SALT program. The following options explain how these characters may be accessed.
Option 1: The Windows® keyboard setting may be changed (preferred method).
Windows XP
- Click on "Start"
- Select "Control Panel" from the Start menu
- Select "Regional and Language Options" from the Control Panel menu
- Click on the "Languages" tab
- Click on the "Details" button of the Language menu
(It is assumed that the only Keyboard installed is US under "English (United States)")
- Click on the "Add" button in the "Installed services" box
- Make sure the Input language is "English (United States)"
- Under the Keyboard layout/IME prompt, scroll down and select "United States-International"
- Click OK
- Click on "United States-International" in the Installed Services box to highlight it
- Click Apply
- Click the "Language Bar.." button near the bottom of the window
- Check the first box labeled "Show the Language bar on the desktop"
- Click OK
- Click OK to exit the Text services and Input Languages menu
- Click Apply followed by OK to exit the Regional and Language Options menu
- Click the X in the upper right-hand corner of the Control Panel menu to exit
- Locate the language bar on your desktop (note: it may appear as an icon on the taskbar)
- Click on the language bar and select "United States-International"
When the language setting is set for "United States - International" you can access most of the special characters as follows:
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Hold down the RIGHT ALT key and type |
To get |
a or A
e or E
i or I
o or O
u or U
n or N
number "1" key
slash key "/" |
á or Á
é or É
í or Í
ó or Ó
ú or Ú
ñ or Ñ
¡
¿ |
| First type " (double quote), then type |
To get |
u or U
SPACE BAR |
ü or Ü
" |
Option 2:
Alternatively, you may prefer to type the entire transcript in Microsoft Word or some other word processor where Spanish symbols are available. Then, you can save the transcript as a text file with the extension .SLT. Or, you can cut/copy and paste the text from Microsoft Word into the SALT transcript window.
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