total annotation duration for more than one file
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total annotation duration for more than one file
I have two questions:
- When retrieving the total annotation time for a speaker tier (via Annotation Statistics --> tiers --> total annotation duration/totale annotatie duur), what does the figure stand for? Are these minutes/seconds?
- Is it possible to retrieve the total annotation time for a certain tier type for several files? For instance, when I would like to know how much time is, in total, transcribed for a certain speaker during five conversations, is it possible to calculate this for these five seperate files at once?
Thanks in advance for any advice!
Re: total annotation duration for more than one file
About the 2 questions:
- in the Statistics panel the only time format currently supported is seconds.milliseconds
- multiple file statistics is on the to-do list.
Depending on what you actually want, the multiple file search could provide a workaround. Create a domain with the files you are interested in, select e.g. the Single Layer Tab, select the "regular expression" search mode, select the appropriate tier, enter ".+" in the search field (without the quotes) and click find. Save the results and open the file in a spreadsheet application (e.g. Excel). You will find columns containing begin time and end time of the annotations. Add a column with a formula calculating the duration. Finally add a cell calculating the sum of all duration values.
So, this is the sum of durations in all files.
If you wish an overview per file, this is not yet possible in this way (or you could do that manually in the spreadsheet). An overview per file will be added in the next version of ELAN.
-Han
Release of ELAN 4.3.0
