5.10. How to detect annotation overlaps

In some cases you might want to have more information about annotation overlaps and their respective duration. For this purpose a wizard has been developed that automatically detects these annotation overlaps and optionally adds the length of the overlaps to the newly created annotations.

This function can be started from Tier > Create Annotations from Overlaps…. This will give you the following dialog windows:

Create annotations from overlaps

Figure 5.70. Create annotations from overlaps

  1. Select the tiers for which the overlaps should be found.

  2. Click on Next.


Create annotations from overlaps

Figure 5.71. Create annotations from overlaps

  1. Enter a name for the new tier.

  2. Select the linguistic type for the new tier.

  3. Optionally let the created annotations be filled with the overlap duration.

  4. Optionally let the annotations only be created if the overlapping annotations have the same value (and optionally specify a value).

  5. Click on Finish.


Create annotations from overlaps

Figure 5.72. Create annotations from overlaps

  1. The new tier will be created and populated.