Use Careful Speech Tool

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Use Careful Speech Tool

On the Start Annotating tab, a segmentation method you can select is Use Careful Speech Tool. It opens the file in the Careful Speech Recorder dialog box.

You will need a microphone for this task. You can click and drag an edge of the Careful Speech Recorder dialog box to resize it.

  1. Press and hold the SPACEBAR key, or click and hold Listen to begin listening to the recording. As you listen to the audio, do the following:

    • Watch the vertical line move through the waveform. Release the SPACEBAR key or mouse button when the line is at the location where you want a segment boundary.

    • Press and hold the SPACEBAR key again, or click and hold the Speak button, while you speak the careful speech annotation of that portion. Then, release the key or button.

Alternatively, click to ignore a segment that you do not want to use.

    • If necessary, click or to remove the most recently added careful speech annotation or to clear Ignore.

    • Repeat this step above until all segment boundaries are set and careful speech annotations are recorded.

  1. To hear a careful speech annotation, hover your mouse pointer over that segment, and then click in that segment.

    • If the annotation is not acceptable, click and hold while you speak the careful speech annotation for the segment again.

This records the new annotation over the old one.

    • If the annotation is acceptable, repeat this step for the next segment.

    • If necessary, for a segment that is not usable as an example of speech, click Ignore.

  1. Click OK.

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