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Details for: CHAT Transcription Format

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Signatures
External signatures File extension: cha
Internal signatures
Name CHAT Transcription Format
Description BOF, Offset 0, Max Offset 256, using 4 mandatory elements, although there are some additional non-mandatory elements that may also appear near BOF: ‘@UTF8’ {0-256} ‘@Begin’ {0-64} ‘@Languages:’ {0-256} ‘@Participants:’ – see https://talkbank.org/manuals/CHAT.pdf. As such these relative offsets between elements may need to be adjusted as more examples of this format are encountered.
Byte sequences
Position type Absolute from BOF
Offset 0
Maximum Offset 256
Byte order  
Value 4055544638{0-256}40426567696E{0-64}404C616E6775616765733A{0-256}405061727469636970616E74733A
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