Chapter 3. Working modes

Table of Contents

Annotation mode
Synchronization mode
Transcription mode
Selecting the tier types for transcription
Selecting tiers for transcription
Show or Hide tiers
Change color of tiers
Change color of tiers
Making tiers non-editable
Entering text for a annotation
Merging annotations
Modifying annotations
Shortcut keys used in this mode
Segmentation mode
Configuring the behavior of the segmentation keystroke
Editing annotations
Merging annotations and splitting annotations
Step-and-Repeat playback mode
Keyboard shortcuts
Interlinearization mode
Analyzer setup and configuration
Types of analyzers and their settings
Lexicons
The interlinearization panel
The Suggestion View

Different working modes are available, some of which are optimized for a specific task. The modes are accessible via the Options menu and are described below.

Annotation mode

The Annotation mode is the generic (and default) mode for working with annotations in several ways. The window in this mode offers most viewing, editing and searching options that are described in this manual (Chapter 1, ELAN documents, Chapter 2, Annotations and Chapter 4, Searching).