ELAN to Toolbox batch process

[Paul Trilsbeek]

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