In some situations a straight-forward list of the annotation units, one after another, can be handy. For that cause an export option to a “traditional transcript text” has been added to ELAN. In its simplest form it just will create a text file containing the successive annotations of several tiers, in chronological order. This feature can be found under
.As can be seen in one of the options enables you to include silences with a minimal duration. In the figure there is a silence of 0.2 seconds between 'yeah' on the tier K-Spch and 'and the you go the other ...' on the tier W-Spch. The first annotation end at 00:00:04.400 seconds and the second begin at 00:00:04.600 seconds, resulting in a silence of 0.2 seconds. If this silence was shorter than the minimal silence duration entered in the export dialog window (20 ms in the figure), the silence will not be included in the exported file.