Giving the right validation

[Osvaldo (osvaldord@gmail.com)]

There are audios well pronounced but people sometimes do not respect the punctuation, like “,” or “;”. What to do in these cases? Do I have to give YES or NO to the verification? Because it is supposed that the software have to learn the correct way of receiving either the words and the punctuation. Am I right?

[dabinat]

Generally the punctuation doesn’t matter and you can approve instances where the person didn’t pause before a comma, for example.

There are some unofficial community validation guidelines here:

Discussion of new guidelines for recording validation

DRAFT GUIDELINES FOR REVIEWING RECORDINGS [Edited to include comments up to 2 April 2019] Problems with the recording Misreadings You need to check very carefully that what has been recorded is exactly what has been written - reject if there are even minor errors. Very common mistakes include: missing out ‘A’ or ‘The’ at the beginning of the recording. missing an ’s’ at the end of a word. Reading contractions that aren’t actually there, such as “We’re” instead of “We are”, or vice versa. M…