Transcriber
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Transcriber is a tool for the transcription and annotation of speech signals for linguistic research. It supports multiple hierarchical layers of segmentation, named entity annotation, speaker lists, topic lists, and overlapping speakers. Two views of the sound pressure waveform at different resolutions may be viewed simultaneously. Various character encodings, including Unicode, are supported.

Annotations from Transcriber may be exported in XML
XML
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Oasis
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' Cover Pages publishes the open DTD
Document Type Definition
Document Type Definition is a set of markup declarations that define a document type for SGML-family markup languages...

 used by Transcriber.

Transcriber is written in Tcl/Tk with the Snack audio library
Snack audio library
The Snack Sound Toolkit is a cross-platform library written by Kåre Sjölander of the Swedish Royal Technical University with bindings for the scripting languages Tcl, Python, and Ruby...

 and is therefore available on most major platforms. It is distributed under the GNU General Public License
GNU General Public License
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