elan ☆

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Description:
Annotation tool for audio and video recordings

Type: Cask | Latest Version: 7.0@0 | Tracked Since: Dec 17, 2025

Links: Homepage | formulae.brew.sh

Category: Multimedia

Tags: linguistics annotation multimedia transcription research audio-analysis

Install: brew install --cask elan

About:
ELAN is a professional multimedia annotation tool designed for creating time-aligned transcriptions and translations of audio and video recordings. It supports complex linguistic analysis with multiple layers of annotation and is widely used in language documentation and prosody research. The tool handles various media formats and exports data to multiple standard formats for further processing.

Key Features:

Multi-tier annotation with customizable linguistic templates
Support for audio/video synchronization and playback control
Export to multiple formats including CSV, XML, and Praat TextGrid
Cross-platform compatibility with Java-based architecture
Thesaurus and vocabulary management for controlled annotation

Use Cases:

Linguistic fieldwork and language documentation projects
Phonetic and prosodic analysis of speech recordings
Gesture and multimodal interaction studies
Educational content transcription and translation

Alternatives:

Praat – Praat excels at acoustic analysis but ELAN provides superior multi-tier annotation for complex linguistic structures
Transcriber – Transcriber is simpler for basic transcription but ELAN offers more sophisticated annotation hierarchies

Version History

Detected	Version	Rev	Change	Commit
Aug 5, 2025 2:17pm	7.0	0	VERSION_BUMP	4662bf1a
Jul 10, 2024 4:10pm	6.8	0	VERSION_BUMP	cd92d54c