The Anvil software is free for research and educational purposes. If you want to download it, write an e-mail with subject "anvil download" and the following information (please write in English or German, and make sure to answer all points): Your name Your research institute (name, city, country, web address if available) some words on your research and how Anvil would be used in it how you heard of Anvil (Internet, colleague, publication etc.) your computer's operating system(s) (Windows 95/98/ME/2000/NT/XP, Linux, Macintosh, Solaris) Send your e-mail to this address: This is for me to keep track of where and how Anvil is employed. In return I will send you the address of the download page and place you on a mailing list that keeps you informed about any Anvil updates. If you mention Anvil in your publications and want to include a literature reference you can use one of the following:   Kipp, M. (2008) Spatiotemporal Coding in ANVIL. Proceedings of the 6th international conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC-08). Michael Kipp (2004), "Gesture Generation by Imitation - From Human Behavior to Computer Character Animation", Boca Raton, Florida: Dissertation.com. (This is my published PhD thesis. More information here) Michael Kipp (2001) Anvil - A Generic Annotation Tool for Multimodal Dialogue. Proceedings of the 7th European Conference on Speech Communication and Technology (Eurospeech), pp. 1367-1370.   Anvil's development and use was an essential part of my PhD research. If you are interested, you can read more about my PhD here. Thanks to DFKI, Germany, for hosting Anvil and supporting its development.