Exporting Elan Data

I have an elan template that only allows for the annotation of controlled vocabularies. How do you export ELAN so that it automatically sums the total duration of the annotation of each controlled vocabulary?

There is no function that does exactly that. The closest approximation is probably the View->Annotation Statistics function. This window has several tabs; the Annotations (II) tab allows to select a tier and shows statistics for each annotation value (corresponds to entries of the CV), the Tiers tab and Tier Types tabs shows totals for all tiers or all types (corresponds more or less to CV’s). The results of each tab can be exported to a tab-delimited text file.
If a CV is used by multiple types and/or multiple tiers, the results will have to be added up separately.
The multiple file variant of this function (File->Multiple File Processing->Statistics for Multiple Files) could give the same overview for all the files that are based on your template.

-Han