| # Text transcript | |
| This folder contains a transcript file for each session (e.g., `G1S1F_transcript.txt`). | |
| The files were exported from ELAN, the software used for transcription, and are UTF-8-encoded, tab-delimited text files consisting of the following four columns: | |
| `[Participant ID] [Start time (seconds)] [End time (seconds)] [Japanese transcription]` | |
| The transcription followed the rules below. | |
| 1. Utterance segments were identified with reference to the audio waveform. When a silent interval of 200 ms or longer was observed between non-silent portions, the portions before and after the silence were treated as separate utterance segments. | |
| 2. Non-silent portions shorter than 30 ms were not identified as utterance segments. | |
| 3. Spoken words were transcribed as uttered, including speech errors. | |
| 4. Exhalations, inhalations, breathing sounds that could not be identified as either, and laughter were represented in the transcripts as `《呼気》`(exhalation), `《吸気》`(inhalation), `《呼吸》`(breathing), and `《笑い》`(laughter), respectively. | |
| 5. Breathing sounds (`《呼気》`, `《吸気》`, and `《呼吸》`) were generally treated as segments separate from spoken words. However, when the portions of speech before and after a breathing sound were less than 200 ms apart and were identified as a single utterance segment, the intervening breathing sound was included in the same segment. | |
| 6. When laughter was accompanied by intelligible speech, the speech was transcribed together with `《笑い》` in the same segment. When laughter was not accompanied by intelligible speech, only `《笑い》` was recorded. | |
| 7. Unintelligible speech was indicated using curly brackets`{ }`. | |
| 8. Each sentence ended with the Japanese period `。`, except that the question mark `？` was used for utterances with rising intonation. Japanese commas `、` were inserted where appropriate, taking the content and pauses into account. | |
| 9. Kanji use was generally limited to the jōyō kanji (常用漢字). | |
| 10. Kanji, hiragana, and katakana were used in preference to alphabetic spelling. Exceptions were made for proper nouns and cases in which the speaker intentionally used English or another foreign language. | |
| 11. Kanji, hiragana, katakana, and numerals were written using full-width, multibyte characters, whereas alphabetic characters were written using half-width, single-byte ASCII characters. | |