ELAN Annotation Format

Writable

audio

ELAN is a professional software tool to manually and semi-automatically annotate and transcribe audio or video recordings. It was developed by the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics in Nijmegen. The .eaf file contains the annotations.

Identify it

Extensions	`.eaf`
MIME types	`application/eaf+xmltext/x-eaf+xml`
Signatures	`3c3f786d6c2076657273696f6e3d22312e302220656e636f64696e673d22` at byte 0
PRONOM	`fmt/1543`
Wikidata	`Q105858454`

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ELANOpen sourcereads and writes · GNU General Public License / GNU General Public License, version 3.0

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Sources

File Formats Wiki
PRONOM fmt/1543
Wikidata Q105858454

From Just Solve the File Format Problem (File Formats Wiki), PRONOM, Wikidata. Updated 2026-10-24.

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