EXMARaLDA
**EXMARaLDA** is a system for working with oral corpora on a computer. It consists of a transcription and annotation tool
([Partitur-Editor](https://exmaralda.org/en/partitur-editor-2/ "Partitur Editor")),
a tool for managing corpora
([Corpus-Manager](https://exmaralda.org/en/corpus-manager-coma-2/ "Corpus-Manager (Coma)"))
and a query and analysis tool
([EXAKT](https://exmaralda.org/en/exakt-3/ "EXAKT")).
**EXMARaLDA's** features include, for instance:
- time-aligned transcription of digital audio or video
- flexible annotation for freely choosable categories,
- systematic documentation of a corpus through metadata
- flexible output of transcription data in various
layouts and formats (notation, document)
- computer-assisted querying of transcription,
annotation and metadata
- interoperable as it works XML based data formats that allow
for data exchange with other tools (like Praat, ELAN,
Transcriber etc.) and enable a flexible processing and
sustainable usage of the data.
**EXMARaLDA** is used by [researchers world
wide](https://exmaralda.org/en/projects/ "Projekte") in
different contexts in which spoken language is analysed,
these include:
- conversation and discourse analysis,
- study of language acquisition and multilingualism,
- phonetics and phonology,
- dialectology and sociolinguistics.
**EXMARaLDA** was developed in the project "Computer
assisted methods for the creation and analysis of
multilingual data" at the Collaborative Research Center
"Multilingualism" (Sonderforschungsbereich
"Mehrsprachigkeit" – SFB 538) at the University of
Hamburg. Since July 2011, the development of EXMARaLDA
is continued at the [Hamburg Centre for Language
Corpora](https://corpora.uni-hamburg.de/drupal/en),
since November 2011 in cooperation with the [Archive for
Spoken German](http://agd.ids-mannheim.de/index.shtml)
at the Institute for the German Language in Mannheim.