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MUSCOVITE Posted 14 years ago
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a tiny transcript for a tiny audio

Hi,

Could somebody please help me out?

The tiny audio the link below points to is taken from an ipod ("a veterinarian is operating on a wounded turtle at the Georgia Sea Turtle Center"). Can't catch the vet's words.... :-(

Please listen to http://www.eng-math-tuition.narod.ru/NotDistinctEnough.mp3

Thank you in advance!

mus-te
  

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so we're gonna [going to] debride this wound on her head .... ] It sounds like they turned the recorder off and then back on later, catching him partway through a sentence that probably began with the name of a veterinary pharmaceutical company: [***] it has a product called Doxyrobe, which is a ....

  • so we're gonna [going to] debride this wound on her head ....
  • ] It sounds like they turned the recorder off and then back on later, catching him partway through a sentence that probably began with the name of a veterinary pharmaceutical company: [***] it has a product called Doxyrobe, which is a ....
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so we're gonna [going to] debride this wound on her head .... ["Debride" is usually pronounced differently, to rhyme with "breed", not "bride".]

It sounds like they turned the recorder off and then back on later, catching him partway through a sentence that probably began with the name of a veterinary pharmaceutical company:

[***] it has a product called Doxyrobe, which is a ....
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mus-te,

Use audacity to slow down the audacity, and that helps you better. In fact, that's how phoneticians try to discern unknown sounds. Geoff Lindsey uses this trick often on his blogs.
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Hi raindoctor,
raindoctorUse audacity to slow down the audacity, and that helps you better
Yes, it is a very good idea. Thanks!

I occasionally use Adobe Audition (the Time/Pitch option) ) to modify my audio files this way.
Unfortunately, there are cases (audio of very poor quality... or very complicated vocabulary, etc) where this trick does not hel

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