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Labelling of Boundaries and Prominences By Phonetically Experienced and Non-Experienced Transcribers (1995)
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@MISC{Strangert95labellingof,
author = {Eva Strangert and Mattias Heldner},
title = {Labelling of Boundaries and Prominences By Phonetically Experienced and Non-Experienced Transcribers},
year = {1995}
}
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Abstract
The purpose of this study is to analyse transcriptions of read and spontaneous spoken material using an agreed-upon IPA-based transcription system for Swedish. The transcriptions included labels for boundaries as well as prominences. Though our main concern is labelling made by expert phoneticians, we also included a group of transcribers having no previous experience of phonetics in the study. In doing so, we hoped to be able to estimate the degree of professionalism demanded for transcribing prosody. Our main objective is to evaluate the system by estimating the extent of reliability between transcribers. We also consider other criteria that a transcription system should meet, e.g. coverage and learnability, within the framework of current approaches to speech and language processing (see Silverman et al. 1992a). In conclusion, high inter-transcriber reliability was achieved. We report this and other evaluations demonstrating the capacity of the system.
