Due to scheduling conflicts and a lack of data, we have been unable to make significant progress on our mouth movement research for the sign language avatar. Instead, we have shifted focus to data that is more readily avaiable. The same annotated database we were using for mouth movements has several other tiers of annotations. We are now focusing on the amount of time between main glosses. AT first, I thought we could isolate the spaces by subtracting the main gloss tier from the English translation tier. Through ELAN, we can process subtractions on multiple files at once, so it seemed like the perfect route. It initially appeared that the English translations spanned the entire length of the videos, however, upon further inspection, I found gaps between the annotations. Thus, I needed a new method to retrieve the gaps between the main glosses.