GRASS - Orthographic Transcription

This article is part of GRASS: the Graz corpus of Read And Spontaneous Speech.

Transcription Protocol

• PRAAT, separate tiers, short chunks of max. 6s
• hesitations, repetitions and disfluencies
• laughter, breathing, smacking, singing, etc.
• foreign, proper and dialect words
• overlapping talk

Here you can find a complete set of symbols used for the creation of the orthographic transcriptions.

Transcription Procedure

1. 6 transcribers participated training workshop
2. Then, they transcribed one conversation
3. Second workshop: mutual correction of transcription
4. Transcription of other conversations
5. Correction by 1 transcriber other than who made the first transcription

During the whole transcription process, the transcribers continued to add content to a transcription protocol and to a lexicon (for the spelling of non-standard words, particles and non-lexical items), which they (online) shared amongst them.

Further Reading on GRASS

• GRASS - Data Collection
• GRASS - Examples
• GRASS - Database Statistics
• GRASS - Symbols for Orthographic Transcriptions