{"id":50400,"date":"2021-02-26T17:04:55","date_gmt":"2021-02-26T22:04:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/?p=50400"},"modified":"2021-02-26T17:19:10","modified_gmt":"2021-02-26T22:19:10","slug":"articulate-tory-gestures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/?p=50400","title":{"rendered":"Articulate Tory gestures"},"content":{"rendered":"

At our most recent Penn Phonetic Lab meeting, we heard a (virtual) talk by Marc Garellek<\/a> on the topic \"Reconsidering voicing during glottal sounds\". The talk was quite interesting, but more relevant for a general audience was what happened when someone turned on Zoom's \"Live Transcription\" feature:
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Overall the accuracy was not terrible, as such things go these days — I'm not able to give an accurate Word Error Rate number, since I don't think the presentation was recorded, but I'd estimate it at about 25%. The fun part was what the errors were.<\/p>\n

For example, the phrase \"articulate Tory\" occurred four times during the 60 seconds or so of transcript I saved, and these were not references to Yorick Wilks<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Rather,\u00a0 Marc's subject naturally involved the word articulatory<\/em>, and each time he used that word, Zoom transcribed it as \"articulate Tory\". And whenever he said glottalization<\/em> it was transcribed as \"globalization\". So when he said (what I believe was)<\/p>\n

For many languages, we really need to only assume two articulatory gestures here, aspiration and glottalization.<\/span><\/p>\n

… Zoom transcribed:<\/p>\n

For many languages, we really need to only assume to articulate Tory gestures here, aspiration, and globalization<\/span><\/p>\n

I suspect that Yorick is more committed to aspirational gestures than to globalization-related ones, but I'll leave it to him to let us know.<\/p>\n

Among other fun errors, creaky vowel<\/em> was regularly rendered as \"creek evil\",\u00a0 and glottal<\/em> was sometimes rendered as \"rebuttal\" (so Do different glottal sounds differ in their voicing<\/em> -> \"Do different rebuttal sounds differ in their voicing\"), and h<\/em> as \"page\" or \"stage\" (so hook top h<\/em> -> \"hook top page\" and voiced h<\/em> as \"voice stage\"), and so on.<\/p>\n

So the subtitles\/transcripts are probably helpful for some non-native speakers and perhaps those with weak network connections, but …<\/p>\n

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