Creating annotation units can be a time consuming job. Therefore, ELAN offers a faster way to initially mark the boundaries of annotation units on a root tier (i.e. where the linguistic type stereotype is “None”): on-the-fly segmentation. This way of working is similar to Transcriber[10]’s segmentation mode. This mode can be accessed through and works as follows:
Select the tier to be segmented
Choose between two keystrokes/annotation (non-adjacent annotations), one keystroke/annotation (this makes all annotations adjacent) and one keystroke/annotation, fixed duration (specify the duration and whether the keystroke marks the begin or end of an annotation).
Use the media controls to play the media file or use the keyboard shortcuts (see Section 7.2.2).
Press enter to start/end an annotation unit, while the movie or sound file is playing
Once finished, choose
to save the newly created annotations or to discard the changes.![]() | Note |
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The segmentation is considered as a single operation and thus can be reversed by a single undo command. |