In the WSJ transcription, certain words are in caps preceded by backslash and tilde - For example - \~NEW-STORY \~CAPITAL \~SPELLED
I read the DOT_SPEC.DOC file but it doesn't describe what the symbols (\~) indicate. Does anyone know what they indicate?
Those are just special marks to indicate some additional information about the utterance, they are not pronounced, so you can remove them.
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In the WSJ transcription, certain words are in caps preceded by backslash and tilde - For example -
\~NEW-STORY
\~CAPITAL
\~SPELLED
I read the DOT_SPEC.DOC file but it doesn't describe what the symbols (\~) indicate. Does anyone know what they indicate?
Last edit: dovark 2013-08-26
Those are just special marks to indicate some additional information about the utterance, they are not pronounced, so you can remove them.