ELAN to Toolbox batch process

John Mansfield jbmansfield at gmail.com
Thu Dec 8 22:11:54 UTC 2011


Thanks Paul.

My script is largely done, though still needs some tweaking and bug-fixing.
And at present it just does Elan => Toolbox direction. I will indeed add it
to the Resources page, if I feel that I've got it to a clean enough state
for others to use.

j

On 9 December 2011 03:08, Paul Trilsbeek <Paul.Trilsbeek at mpi.nl> wrote:

> Hello John,
>
> Batch conversion from Toolbox to ELAN v.v. and Praat to ELAN v.v. is
> currently high on the priority list to be included in one of the next ELAN
> releases, however I can't give you an exact date when it will be done.
>
> In the mean time, if you decide to write the script and you think it might
> be of use to others as well, we would be happy to include it on the ELAN
> "third party resources" page: http://www.lat-mpi.eu/tools/elan/thirdparty
>
> Best regards,
>
> Paul Trilsbeek
> MPI for Psycholinguistics
>
>
> On Dec 8, 2011, at 6:53 , John Mansfield wrote:
>
> > Since there seem to be quite a few people on RNLD working with both ELAN
> and Toolbox -
> >
> > My research involves dozens of ELAN transcription files, which I now
> need to move to Toolbox for interlinearization.
> >
> > To avoid spending too much time on the ELAN "export to Toolbox"
> function, I'm writing a Python script that does the same job, but can be
> more easily used to do dozens of files at a time. (And then re-do them, if
> I later decide I want to configure the transformation differently.)
> >
> > If anyone else out there is trying to solve the same problem, I'd be
> interested to hear from you. I'd like to make my Python script as re-usable
> as possible, for various user requirements. Or maybe someone else has
> already written this thing.
> >
> > JOhn
>
>
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