Step 4:  Manual Correction of Word Alignments

After Sonic has been run on the TextGrids, a human transcriber goes through the newly-created word boundaries and verifies that they are correctly placed. This is also an occasion to correct any lingering erroneously transcribed words or phrases in the transcript, and to verify the proper application of the RT-03 transcription conventions. Transcribers often make use of the spectrogram visualization in Praat to maximize accuracy in boundary placement.


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