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The Clickable Table of Contents (C-TOC) enables you to access rapidly passages of your interviews. These pieces are the actual TOC of the interview.
Why? Imagine, you have an interview with a length of 3 hours. Transcribe it, and you will have nearly hundred pages of dense text. You still do not know what is the content unless you have red it.
The Clickable TOC, on the other hand, offers you a structure of the interview. Simply by looking at the outline you are informed what it is about. Furthermore, and more importantly, you can instantly access the segments. They are just a mouseclick away – no need of winding a tape recorder or a minidisk.
You can still transcribe the passages that are important for you, others you can leave as they are. For many users there is no transcribing necessary whatsoever, because your have pieces of, say, half a minute or a minute length that are clearly market. You can easily refer to these segments. In Atlas.ti you can use them as basic elements for all future analysis. Another possibility to work with C-TOCs is to use the freely available software Winamp.
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                             ATLAS.TI                                                            WINAMP

If you work with Atlas.ti you can tread the segments like “Quotations”. They are open to all kind of analysis. Try it yourself. Save (right-click and “Save as..”) the two files below into a single folder and double-click “example.hpr” When using a network-version of Atlas.ti, open the file from within the Programme. Once the meaning segments are cut out of the whole mp3-file, the freely available software Winamp shows all those segments as a Table of Content within its playlist. Just download the zip-file below and un-zip it into a single folder. Then double-click the file “Playlist-Interview.m3u” (Winamp can be downloaded here)                  example.hpr     example.mp3                                          example.zip Below is what you get in Atlas.ti and what you can access by mouse-click on each heading: (first mm:ss indicates the start of the sequence, the second its length) These segments can be treated as the basic meaningful pieces and be related to other quotations, codes, memos, comments etc. In Network views, for example, these relations can be shown and the elements can be accessed very easily by mouse-clicks. Table of Content Initiation: Global Powerty (0:00 0:49) Contract betw rich and poor (0:49 1:25)      ---Goals (0:49 0:36)      ---Efforts (1:25 0:17)      ---Not accomplished (1:42 0:33) Frightening Facts (2:14 0:47) Commitment + Reality (3:01 0:37) The Role of Science (3:37 4:19)      ---"It is exacly right" (3:38 0:09)      ---Available Knowledge (3:47 0:49)      ---Example: Hunger (4:35 2:19)      ---Easy Measures (6:55 0:28)

Reference:
Hauptmann, S.:  Structuring Audio Data With a "C-TOC". An Example for Analysing Raw Data.
 In: Forum Qualitative Research. Volume 6, No. 1, Art. 33 – January 2005.               >>Link<<