RT-04 Transcription

The STT DevTest and Evaluation transcription data sets aim to produce verbatim (word-for-word) transcripts of broadcast news and conversational telephone speech. Annotators follow detailed careful transcription guidelines.

• RT-04 Transcription Specification, Version 3.1 available in .pdf format.

  See also the RT-02 and RT-03 transcription pages:

  • RT-02 Transcription
  • RT-03 Transcription

NOTE: While the careful transcription guidelines vary only slightly from year to year, it is important to use only the current year's transcription specification. For example, the RT-03 guidelines call for a certain overlapping speech format in broadcast news, whereas the RT-04 transcription guidelines introduce another convention altogether. Please be sure to refer to the RT-04 Careful Transcription Specification version 3.0 (noted and linked, above) for the year 2004.

• Link to the RT-04 STT Transcription Guide for Transcribers

• Resources for the Annotator