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CAQDAS Software Sonal

Today we have some news from the French and  from the most beautifull city in the world. The software Sonal is not quite new but it was only recently that somebody recommended Sonal to me at researchgate.net. There is no information yet in English or German and it also seems that the software itself is purely in French:

Sonal est un logiciel gratuit et innovant de retranscription d’entretiens. Il permet de facilement retranscrire, catégoriser et analyser vos interviews, directement à partir de vos fichiers audio.

Interview RE-transcription is the keyword. We couldn’t find it in English and thus tried to translate it with transcript analysis. We therefore grouped Sonal under Qualitative Data Analysis. On their website there is a video presenting their software in a short. Even without French language knowledge you can grasp a good sense of what you can do with the software.  Overall it looks quite colourful. We tried to run it here in a virtual Windows 7 machine but we didn’t succeed yet. If there is anybody out there how ever worked with Sonal, we would be happy to get some case studies or reports on it. After all, it seems to be a very interesting project. the software is freely available and the source will be published soon (!?) under a open source licence.

4 replies on “CAQDAS Software Sonal”

Hallo Harald,
die Seiten sind by the way auch auf Englisch: http://www.sonal-info.com/en/page/download. Über den Link – Telecharger – ok, der ist tatsächlich Französisch – lädst du Sonal runter. Die Sprache stellst Du dann im Programm selber ein (kann sein, dass Du das Programmm dann noch mal neustarten musst – so war es zumindest bei der Version, die ich mal genutzt habe). Und ja, das Video, so ist das halt, wenn man Sachen im Internet verlinkt, die verschwinden auch mal. Ich kann es leider grad nicht finden. Vielleicht mal auf Youtube nachschauen?!
Ahoi

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