Many computerized tools for comparing phonetic transcriptions have been proposed and
shared in the past; however, previous tools are relatively difficult to access and incorporate …

Purpose Many communication disorders result in speech sound errors that listeners
perceive as phonemic errors. Unfortunately, manual methods for calculating phonemic error …

Phonetic transcription is a clinical tool that speech-language pathologists (SLP) use when
transcribing speech of individuals with phonetic or phonological difficulties. Through …

Abstract The Speech Transcription Analysis Tool (STAT) is an open source tool for aligning
and comparing two phonetically transcribed texts of human speech. The output analysis is a …

Clinical phonetic transcription is regarded as a highly specialised skill requiring hours of
practice for mastery. Although this skill is a critical part of students' clinical preparation to …

This chapter discusses the nature of phonetic transcription. It provides a brief historical
overview of the use of phonetic transcription in linguistic research. A phonetic transcription …

There is a consensus between many linguists that half of all languages risk disappearing by
the end of the century. Documentation is agreed to be a priority. This includes the process of …

ADAPT (Algorithm for Dynamic Alignment of Phonetic Transcriptions) is a dynamic
programming algorithm that computes the optimal alignment between two strings of phonetic …

Some of the speech databases and large spoken language corpora that have been
collected during the last fifteen years have been (at least partly) annotated with a broad …

Alignment of phonetic sequences is a necessary step in many applications in computational
phonology. After discussing various approaches to phonetic alignment, I present a new …