TRANSCRIPTION PROBLEMS


  • Conversational speech related problems

  • Partial words and restarts

  • ... yeah you n[eed]- you n[eed]- I think you need ...

  • Laughter words

  • yeah [laughter-well] [laughter-he's] [laughter-he's] [laughter-he] he's not bad ....

  • Mispronounced words

  • ... I played chicert[os]- uh concertos ....

  • Telephone channel related problems

  • Acoustic echo

  • Static noise, clicks, pops etc.

  • About 8% error rate in transcriptions