ELAN offers the possibility to import a Praat .TextGrid file: click on
. In the dialog
window that now appears, you can browse to the file you wish to import. You are also
able to Include Praat PointTiers. When selecting this option,
specify the Default PointTiers annotation duration in milliseconds.
Check Skip empty intervals / annotations if you want to do so.
Finally, if you tick the Attempt to auto detect .wav file checkbox,
an audio file with the same name as the TextGrid file will be added to the linked files,
if it is found.
If there is already a annotation document opened in ELAN, the imported TextGrid is added to the document in one or more new tiers. If there is no annotation document opened, a new document consisting of the TextGrid data is generated.
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.