Consistency in transcription and labelling of German intonation with GToBI
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A diverse set of speech data was labelled in three sites by 13 transcribers with differing levels of expertise, using GToBI, a consensus transcription system for German intonation. Overall inter-transcriber-consistency suggests that, with training, labellers can acquire sufficient skill with GToBI for large-scale database labelling.
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