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There are 6 points of departure:
- The transcription is intended to be an
orthographic, lexical transcription
with a few details included that represent
audible acoustic events (speech and
nonspeech) present in the corresponding waveform
files. The extra marks
contained in the transcription aid in
interpreting the text form of the
utterance.
- The transcription is intended to be a quick
and broad transcription;
transcribers should not have to agonise over
decisions, but rather realise that
their transcription is intended to be a rough
guide that others may examine
further for details.
- Transcriptions should be made in two
passes: one pass in which WORDS are
transcribed, and a second in which the additional
details are added.
Background noises and uh's are easy to miss
unless specifically attended to.
It is recommended that transcribers have some
background in phonetics and/or
linguistics, or that their training and
preparation for the transcription task
cover some basics in acoustic phonetics and
dialect and style variations.
- The overall aim is to keep as much speech
in the corpus as possible and to
try to avoid the need for deleting recordings
from the corpus due to some extra
noises, dysfluencies, etc.
- The conventions comprise both mandatory and
optional transcriptions. All
transcriptions should precisely follow the
mandatory guidelines. The optional
transcriptions are marked OPTIONAL in this
document, and if provided should
be documented and should follow these guidelines
precisely. This is to
regulate the task of external validation.
Markings which are optional have
been chosen to be easily removed or translated by
automatic means to yield the
base transcription form.
- The documentation provided with the
database transcriptions should
accurately provide details of which optional
transcriptions were performed, and
all relevant additional information, such as
standard dictionary, preferred
spelling variants, etc.
In summary, the principles are ``Keep it simple''
and ``Document everything
adequately''.
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