Presentation One of the strengths of an XML-based preparation of transcriptions as well as of other texts is the possibility of creating an elegant document presentation. At the time writing no genuine XML browser is available yet. Nevertheless, a presentation of XML documents with an SGML browser is possible 8 . A presentation using frames was developed. In total, four frames were displayed.
Every frame shows the same transcription differently.
The meta-information about the utterances, for instance, is displayed in one frame in German and in an other frame in English. Furthermore, one frame displays only the number of the utterance, the associated speaker, and two icons. One click on the one icon causes the originally recorded sound to be played and one click on the other icon causes a window to open, which displays the transcription without annotations. I want to stress once more, that this approach is not limited to the base tag-set Transcription of Speech . Current research by Henning Lobin at the University of Bielefeld is concerned with the unification of different SGML-documents, and could lead to precisely such a formalization.