When you wish to work with your annotations in Praat, ELAN enables you to export your annotation to a Praat TextGrid. To do this, click . In the dialog window that appears you can select the tiers you wish to export(the section called “How to select tiers”) and specify whether you want to restrict the output to the selected interval.
After clicking , you can enter a file name and select an encoding. In addition to TextGrid files in the default encoding for the operating system, ELAN supports Praat TextGrid files with UTF-8 and UTF-16 encoding. Finally click on .