[Corpora-List] Transcribed or transliterated texts

[Angus B. Grieve-Smith]

Yuri Tambovtsev wrote:
> Dear Corpora members, when someone asked for transcribed or 
> transliterated texts Corpora members advised him English texts in the 
> usual English orthography, just like in Gutenberg collection. May be I 
> don't understand English well enough since I have been studying it for 
> 55 years only, but I understood that the person has the same problem 
> as I had, have and is going to have, i.e. the texts in tanscription. 
> One can call it a Phonetic Corpora, as I do. As far as I understand 
> there is not any reliable programme to transcribe texts by a computer. 
> Anyway, all our texts were transcribed by hand. And then checked and 
> rechecked.
    Transcribed by hand from recordings of speech, right?

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				-Angus B. Grieve-Smith
				grvsmth at panix.com


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