can I combine tiers in tab-delimited text?
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can I combine tiers in tab-delimited text?
I'm going to be segmenting a large number of files using the exported tab-delimited text as labels in audacity. I have the primary tier as the transcription, and under that the translation. I'd like to be able to automatically segment files that would include both tiers in the file name, and to do that I need to be able to export tab delimited text that combines both tiers. When I export both tiers currently it just gives me two annotations for the same chunk of audio, and audacity exports two copies, each with a different name.
Is there a solution?
Re: can I combine tiers in tab-delimited text?
If I understand correctly what you need, you could first use the Tier->Merge Tiers... function with the option "concatenate values". In the current ELAN version this is only available for independent tiers (in the next version for Symbolic Association tiers as well), so if the translation is a depending tier, you'll first have to make a (temporary) independent tier of it via Tier->Copy Tier...
I guess that if you export the merged tiers, you'll have the transcription and the translation combined.
-Han
Re: Re: can I combine tiers in tab-delimited text?
Thanks! That looks perfect in theory, I just haven't been able to get it to work in practice. When I get to the end of the merge tiers wizard I can click finish all I want but nothing happens. The same happens when I try to create copies of annotations - it starts, and then stops half done. I'll keep on trying anyways. Thanks again!
Release of ELAN 4.3.0
