Disfluencies and Human Speech Transcription Errors

Vicky Zayats, Trang Tran, Richard A. Wright, Courtney Mansfield, Mari Ostendorf

Abstract: This paper explores contexts associated with errors in transcription of spontaneous speech, shedding light on human perception of disfluencies and other conversational speech phenomena. A new version of the Switchboard corpus is provided with disfluency annotations for careful speech transcripts, together with results showing the impact of transcription errors on evaluation of automatic disfluency detection.