Conversation Analysis (CA) is the most prominent approach to the analysis of conversational data. Large segments of the TalkBank database are transcribed in CA format and linked to either audio or video. The links on this page provide assistance to CA workers interested in working with these databases and in creating new CA transcripts using CLAN.

• If you want to explore the database, then click on "Transcript Database" below.
• If you want to learn the program, click on "Introduction to CLAN" below.