{"id":992,"date":"2016-10-06T18:45:29","date_gmt":"2016-10-06T18:45:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/software.sil.org\/fieldworks\/?page_id=992"},"modified":"2026-10-22T17:04:46","modified_gmt":"2026-10-22T22:04:46","slug":"companion-tools","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/software.sil.org\/fieldworks\/help\/companion-tools\/","title":{"rendered":"Companion Tools"},"content":{"rendered":"

These companion tools for FLEx<\/a> help you import \/ export, back up, publish, and archive your data.<\/p>\n

Automated Backup<\/strong>
\nMyWorkSafe<\/a>
\nRAMP<\/a> SIL Archives<\/p>\n

Import-related<\/strong>
\nSheetSwiper<\/a>
\nSOLID<\/a>
\nFlexText-Excel-Import<\/a><\/p>\n

Text transcription and time-alignment<\/strong>
\nSayMore<\/a>
\nELAN<\/a>
\nFlexText Editor Suite<\/a> is a web app suite that makes it easy to delegate recording, transcription, glossing, and free translation to mother tongue speakers and import their results into your FLEx database. It includes time alignment. It was developed from years of watching mother tongue translators struggle with technology and designed from the ground up to be intuitive, simple, and pain-free, focusing on enabling them to do what they do well by removing unnecessary tech skills (like file management, task switching, double-clicking, etc) from the equation. Also designed from the ground up to work in very remote locations with locally available devices (including Android phones and tablets) and with very poor or unreliable internet access. Very positive feedback so far from mother tongue translators as well as from advisers working with them.<\/p>\n

Phonology<\/strong>
\nPhonology Assistant<\/a><\/p>\n

Publishing<\/strong>
\nWebonary<\/a>. With a few clicks you can publish an online Dictionary from your FieldWorks data.
\nXLingPaper<\/a> brings your beautifully structured FieldWorks data into a beautifully structured linguistic article or grammatical description.
\nLibreOffice Linguistic Tools (for OpenOffice and LibreOffice)<\/a>
\nPDFDroplet<\/a>
\nPathway<\/a>
\nKratylos<\/a> Publishes LIFT (dictionary) and FlexText (interlinear) on a website with links and queries between them.<\/p>\n

Simpler user interface for entering lexical data<\/strong>
\nThe Combine<\/a>
\nWeSay<\/a>
\nVariant Generator<\/a>
\nAllomorph Generator<\/a><\/p>\n

Web based interface for lexical data<\/strong>
\nLanguage Forge<\/a> holds a working copy of your FieldWorks data, serving as both an archive and a web interface so that a team can work together on a FieldWorks project.<\/p>\n

Send\/Receive<\/strong>
\nChorusHub<\/a><\/p>\n

Rule-base machine translation based on FLEx<\/strong>
\nFLExTrans<\/a><\/p>\n

Various uses<\/strong><\/p>\n

FLExTools<\/a> An application for running Python scripts against a FieldWorks database
\nFLEx-Scratchpad<\/a> A notes app that allows you to organize and embed live, auto-refreshing items from FLEx (lexical entries, interlinear text data, text charts or snippets). And visual filters for tags, columns, text chart markers, as well as ways to just manually highlight and mark things up in the app. Basically it\u2019s designed to be a FLEx version of Logos notes documents. So it\u2019s easy to collect and organize examples, even could kind of become a rough draft\/brainstorming area for a paper.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

These companion tools for FLEx help you import \/ export, back up, publish, and archive your data. Automated Backup MyWorkSafe RAMP SIL Archives Import-related SheetSwiper SOLID FlexText-Excel-Import Text transcription and time-alignment SayMore ELAN FlexText Editor Suite is a web app suite that makes it easy to delegate recording, transcription, glossing, and free translation to mother […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":34,"featured_media":0,"parent":31,"menu_order":11,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"hide_sidebar":false,"hide_h1":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-992","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/software.sil.org\/fieldworks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/992","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/software.sil.org\/fieldworks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/software.sil.org\/fieldworks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/software.sil.org\/fieldworks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/34"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/software.sil.org\/fieldworks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=992"}],"version-history":[{"count":36,"href":"https:\/\/software.sil.org\/fieldworks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/992\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5396,"href":"https:\/\/software.sil.org\/fieldworks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/992\/revisions\/5396"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/software.sil.org\/fieldworks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/31"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/software.sil.org\/fieldworks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=992"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}