Columbia Games Corpus » Orthographic Alignment Examples
Example of misplaced word boundaries:
Wrong:![](align-examples/align-ex1-no.gif) |
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Right:![](align-examples/align-ex1-yes.gif) |
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Example of missing silence:
Wrong:![](align-examples/align-ex2-no.gif) |
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Right:![](align-examples/align-ex2-yes.gif) |
(the silence in this case is 105 milliseconds long) |
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Examples of word-initial and word-final closure:
Wrong:![](align-examples/align-ex3-no.gif) |
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Right:![](align-examples/align-ex3-yes.gif) |
Wrong:![](align-examples/align-ex4-no.gif) |
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Right:![](align-examples/align-ex4-yes.gif) |
Examples of glottal stops:
The same example, without a glottal stop:
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Examples of breaths
Sometimes words are pronounced with a breathiness at the end, which should be
included completely in the word (as in the word 'okay' in the following two examples).
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Other examples:
Note the location of the boundaries between "right" and "top", and between "top" and "part".
![](align-examples/right-top-part.gif) |
» Play wav file ![play wav file](images/speaker.gif) |
Note the location of the boundary between "almost" and "touching".
![](align-examples/almost-touching.gif) |
» Play wav file ![play wav file](images/speaker.gif) |
Note the location of the boundary between "should" and "be".
![](align-examples/should-be.gif) |
» Play wav file ![play wav file](images/speaker.gif) |