I D I DID SEE S I'VE BEEN LOOKING AT SOME GUIDELINES FOR ANOTHER CORPUS AND I DID SEE SOMETHING ABOUT PROPER NAMES SO I'LL I'LL HAVE A LOOK AT THAT AND SEE HOW WE CAN HANDLE THAT HERE WHAT UH YEAH QUITE POSSIBLY BUT SINCE IT'S COMING FROM ICSI UH IT'S COMING FROM IDIAP IN SWITZERLAND YEAH IT W IT SHOULD BE EASY ENOUGH TO GET BUT IT'S IT'S ONE OTHER STEP YOU KNOW EMAILING SOMEBODY TO FIND OUT WHO KNOWS THIS INFORMATION ANYWAY IT'S YEAH YEAH BECAUSE EVERYONE SIGNS A CONSENT FORM WHEN THEY PARTICIPATE IN THE EXPERIMENT SO WE OUGHT TO BE ABLE TO GET THAT BUT BUT THERE SHOU WE SHOULD ALSO HAVE A W A MEANS OF DEALING WITH PROPER NAMES WHEN WE DON'T KNOW WHAT IT IS OR HOW IT MIGHT BE SPELLED AT ALL AND AND FLAGGING THAT IN IN SOME WAY SO I'LL TH I'LL I'LL TRY TO ADDRESS BOTH THINGS OKAY WHAT WAS MISTER AGAIN I CAN'T REMEMBER SEEING HOW TO TRANSCRIBE MISTER M. M. R. MISTER AND SAME WITH MISSUS M. I. S. S. U. S. I BELIEVE IS IT I BELIEVE I BELIEVE CHECK CHECK THE DICTIONARY THAT YEAH BUT YOU WOULD NEVER UM TYPE THE ABBREVIATED SPELLING FOR ANYTHING UM WELL I'M SURE THERE'S A SPELLING IN THE O. E. D. YEAH SO UM ABOUT UM FOREIGN WORDS WHAT DO WE WHEN WE'RE CHECKING UM IF WE COME UP SOMETHING SO WE JUST LEAVE IT AS YEAH NOT COME ACROSS ANY YET I GOT ONE WHICH I IT WAS FRENCH SO I KNEW HOW TO EX SPELL IT YEAH I MEAN IF IT'S IN CARETS AND THEY KNOW IT'S FOREIGN DOES THAT MATTER UM IT SHOULDN'T BECAUSE THINGS ARE GOING TO BE LEFT LIKE THE ASTERISK WILL BE LEFT FOR THE PROC THE SUBSEQUENT PROCESSING BUT CARETS WITH QUESTION MARKS IN BETWEEN WOULD HAVE TO BE RESOLVED IN SOME WAY OR COULD WE JUST CHANGE IT TO AN AT BETWEEN THE CARETS 'CAUSE IT'S ONLY INTELLIGIBLE THEORETICALLY YEAH YEAH OH YEAH YEAH IF YOU IF IF F IT'S A FOREIGN WORD AND YOU KNOW WHAT IT IS JUST ENCLOSE IT IN CARETS YEAH 'CAUSE I HAVE THERE IS ONE DIALOGUE WHERE I THINK TWO SPEAKERS ARE FRENCH LIKE ONE IS DEFINITELY FRENCH AND I KNOW SHE IS SAYING AND THEN SOMEBODY S SAYING SOMETHING TO HER AND SHE GOES COMMENT AND THEN YOU KNOW YOU KNOW THAT SO YEAH OKAY OH NOT REALLY BUT ON COMMENT YEAH YEAH OKAY UM THERE IS THERE IS JUST ONE OTHER THING SHE SHE TYPED OKAY UM IN CAPS O. C C O. CAPITAL O. CAPITAL K. AND HUGE NO NO I DON'T KNOW WHY SHE MISSED THAT IN THE IN THE GUIDELINES YEAH OKAY NO A. Y. ALRIGHT OOPS SOMEONE'S GONNA FIND SOME OF THOSE YEAH THEIR OWN CHECKING THEIR OWN WORK YES YES SO WE WILL CATCH THESE THINGS HAVE TO REMEMBER THAT ONE NOW MORE EFFICIENTLY I THINK AND ON SO I'LL JUST GO UP TO THE BOARD DO I HAVE TO KEEP THIS STUFF ON PROBABLY OH YEAH THEY'VE GOT CLIPS OH YEAH 'CAUSE EVERY TIME SOMEBODY'D BE GOING OVER THERE YOU'D HEAR ALL THIS SOUND OF AND ABOUT FIVE OR SIX BREAKS IN THE BETWEEN IS THE MAKING IT A OKAY SO I GUESS JUST FOR THE SAKE OF USING THE WHITE BOARD AND KILLING A LITTLE MORE TIME I'LL JUST WRITE DOWN THE THINGS THAT ARE MOST COMMON TO BE CHECKED SO LET'S SEE SO OH OKAY NOW LOOKS LIKE SOME PIECE OF MEDICAL EQUIPMENT RATHER THIS IS A LIST OF THINGS TO DO AS THE CHECKER SO YOU WANNA LISTEN TO THE SILENT REGIONS MM-HMM THEN CHECK THE SPEECH REGIONS AND AS PART OF THAT YOU WANT TO UM CHECK THE BOUNDARIES AND OH BY THE WAY THIS SHOULD BE UM UM TRANSCRIBE ANY MISSED SPEECH AND JUST LET'S SEE WHAT ELSE OKAY AND WITHIN THIS CHECKING THE SPEECH SEGMENTS YOU WANT TO LISTEN FOR OR LOOK FOR MISSED UM LOOK FOR MISSED PUNCTUATION FILLED PAUSES WORDS IN STUTTERING AND IF YOU HAVE UM IF YOU HAVE A STUTTERED WORD YOU DON'T NEED TO USE THE HYPHEN TO MARK DISCONTINUITY IT'S JUST SO IF SOMEBODY SAYS THE THE THEN IT'S JUST THE THE UM WORDS IN ST UH AND WHAT ELSE TRY TO GET F FALSE STARTS SHORT WORDS MAKE SURE WITH LITTLE WORDS LIKE THE AND UH LITTLE ARTICLES AND THAT KIND OF THING DON'T GET OMITTED UM SHORT WORDS AND WORD FRAGMENTS THOSE ARE THE COMMONLY MISSED THINGS AND THEN UM LOOK FOR CASES OF MIS TRANSCRIPTION SEEMS SO SILLY TO BE WRITING THIS ALL BUT ANYWAY MIS TRANSCRIPTION SO MAKE SURE IF THE SPEAKER SAID WILL YOU TYPE WILL NOT WOULD OR UM IF THEY SAY WE EVEN THOUGH IT MIGHT BE MORE GRAMMATICALLY CORRECT TO TYPE WE'RE UM THAT KIND OF THING UM THA CASES OF ELLIPSIS WHERE UM MAYBE THE TRANSCRIBER TYPED THEM BUT REALLY WHAT WAS SAID WAS 'EM SO WHERE YOU USE THE APOSTROPHE AND LOOK FOR CAPITALISATION I'M NOT GONNA GONNA DO ANY MORE OF THIS CAPITALISATION SPELLING UM USE THE O. E. D. TO CHECK ON THINGS YOU DON'T KNOW ABOUT UM REFER TO THE WIKI FOR ALL REGULARISED SPELLINGS AND F FOR THINGS LIKE FILLED PAUSES OH WAS THAT OKAY WHEN IT'S JUST AS 'KAY BUT IT'S AT THE BEGINNING OF A SENTENCE SHOULD THE K. BE CAPITALISED W AND THEN YEAH CAPITALISE THE K. YEAH AND I THINK SMELLS REALLY GOOD I USED TO ALWAYS LOVE SMELLING MARKERS WHAT ELSE DID I FIND UM THE SO MAKE SURE THE DA THE DASH THE HYPHEN WHATEVER YOU CALL IT IS BEING USED APPROPRIATELY IN CASES OF DISCONTINUITY UM BUT NOT IN STUTTERING LIKE I SAID AND AND DON'T USE IT WHEN THE UTTERANCE IS CLEARLY CONTINUED IN THE NEXT SEGMENT OR WHATEVER UM DON'T TRANSCRIBE IN BREATHS OR OUT BREATHS AND OKAY SHOULD NEVER BE UM TWO CAPITAL LETTERS IT SHOULD BE O. K. A. Y. UM AND ONE OTHER THING IS TO BREAK BREAK UP LONG SEGMENTS IF YOU FIND ANY SO YEAH BUT THAT'S A KIND OF CRUDE GUIDELINE I'D I'D SAY JUST ANYTHING THAT SEEMS UNMANAGEABLE AH YEAH YEAH REALLY UH IT IT MEANS NOTHING TO SAY A MINUTE IT'S JUST A G A REALLY CRUDE GUIDELINE I WOULD JUST TRY TO KEEP SEGMENTS VERY MANAGEABLE UM AND A BUT U YOU KNOW USE THESE WAVE FORMS TO HELP YOU AND YOU CAN ADJUST THE RESOLUTION SO THAT OH THAT DIDN'T HELP ME TOO MUCH BUT YOU CAN USE THIS LITTLE SLIDE BAR TO ADJUST THE RESOLUTION ACTUALLY THAT DOESN'T SEEM TO BE WORKING WHICH O UM IN IN THE RESOLUTION THINGY UM IT WILL YEAH ON THIS ONE NO NOT NOT THE OTHER ONE THIS ONE YEAH OH IS THAT ZOOM IN YEAH YEAH OH AND YOU CAN ALSO IF YOU GO TO SIGNAL AND UM THAT'S IT'S SOMETHING UNDER SIGNAL WHERE YOU CAN ADJUST THE AMPLITUDE AS WELL ON RESOLUTION MM-HMM UM OH OKAY RIGHT OH NO I THINK THAT'S NOT IF YOU GO TO CONTROL PANEL UH-HUH