<p>EXMARaLDA is a system for working with oral corpora on a computer. It consists of a transcription and annotation tool (Partitur-Editor), a tool for managing corpora (Corpus-Manager) and a query and analysis tool (EXAKT).</p><p>EXMARaLDA supports the time-aligned transcription of digital audio or video, a flexible annotation for freely choosable categories, the systematic documentation of a corpus through metadata, a flexible visualisation of transcription data in different layouts and document formats, as well as the computer-assisted querying of transcription, annotation and metadata.</p><p>EXMARaLDA works with XML based data formats which interoperate with one another and with the formats of other widely used tools (like Praat, ELAN, Transcriber). This enables a flexible processing and sustainable usage of the data.</p>