import of praat short TextGrid

ELAN
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Hi,

I am investigating different ways of importing existing, non-timealigned audio transcriptions into ELAN but I have run into some problems and questions. I will
post them individually to help search engines.

It seems the praat import does not support the short
praat text format (for TextGrids, a 12-line header,
then (BEGINTIME, ENDTIME, ANNOTATION)+, each on separate lines) ? I get

Operation interrupted: No tiers detected in TextGrid file

However, if I open in Praat and resave as ordinary (long) text file,
it does open in Elan.

If this is not just a bug, it would be a useful function on my
wishlist. The use case is for instance the praat format
used for intermediate results in a larger tool chain;
then it is much easier generated in the short than
in the ordinary format.

cheers,

Marcus

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You’re right, the short format isn’t supported yet. It is on the to do list (and maybe we should just try to add that soon).

-Han