nzilbb.converter.eaftotextgrid
EafToTextGrid
Converts ELAN .eaf files to Praat .TextGrid files
ELAN tiers are converted directly to Praat tiers as-is.
Tiers have the same names, unless the ELAN tier has the ‘Participant’ attribute set in which case, the resulting TextGrid tier will be named after the participant
Deserializing from “ELAN EAF Transcript” text/x-eaf+xml
Command-line configuration parameters for deserialization:
--commentLayer=Layer |
Commentary |
--noiseLayer=Layer |
Noise annotations |
--lexicalLayer=Layer |
Lexical tags |
--pronounceLayer=Layer |
Manual pronunciation tags |
--authorLayer=Layer |
Name of transcriber |
--dateLayer=Layer |
Document date |
--languageLayer=Layer |
The language of the whole transcript |
--phraseLanguageLayer=Layer |
For tagging individual phrases with a language |
--useConventions=Boolean |
Whether to use text conventions for comment, noise, lexical, and pronounce annotations |
--ignoreBlankAnnotations=Boolean |
Whether to skip annotations with no label, or process them |
--minimumTurnPauseLength=Double |
Minimum amount of time between two turns by the same speaker, with no intervening speaker, for which the inter-turn pause counts as a turn change boundary. If the pause is shorter than this, the turns are merged into one. |
Serializing to “Praat TextGrid” text/praat-textgrid
Command-line configuration parameters for serialization:
--commentLayer=Layer |
Commentary |
--noiseLayer=Layer |
Noise annotations |
--lexicalLayer=Layer |
Lexical tags |
--pronounceLayer=Layer |
Manual pronunciation tags |
--renameShortNumericSpeakers=Boolean |
Short speaker names like ‘S1’ should be prefixed with the transcript name during import |
--useConventions=Boolean |
Whether to use text conventions for comment, noise, lexical, and pronounce annotations |