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ELAN is a professional annotation tool for creating textual annotations on audio and/or video recordings. It supports unlimited annotations on multiple hierarchical tiers, with time-aligned or referential links to media.
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en.wikipedia.org shapes more of what AI says about ELAN than any other source, at 33% of its citations.
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ELAN (Best for Intense Transcription): Developed by the Max Planck Institute, ELAN is a desktop application designed for creating complex annotations

ELAN (Best for Complex/Detailed Annotation): A popular free tool, particularly in linguistics, designed for annotating audio and video.