Data Quality Control

[PaulHeggarty]

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Miscellaneous Quality Control Issues with Slavic

• One word is not playing (‘write!’); again, this applies to most Slavic recordings so there must be a general technical issue here that is hopefully easy to fix.
• Greater Poland Some words say “soon”, we need to check if the sound files actually exist.
• Mazovian A few words showing “soon” or having a transcription but no sound.
• All Kashubian A few words showing a black play button or having a transcription but no sound.
• Sorbian U Cath Some of the alternative pronunciations are not playing. ‘dead’ has a transcription but no sound.

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Languages with many sound files failing to show -- missing from the server?

There are cases where languages that should have a full set of sound files do not. This is most likely caused by those files failing to load properly to the server (or having somehow been deleted since). Please check these up and fix. Please also use the diagnostic tools to identify and fix all other such cases. Here are some first examples.

• http://www.soundcomparisons.com/#/en/Germanic/language/Gmc_W_GLow_GwLS_WPh_Schierloh_Dl
• http://www.soundcomparisons.com/#/en/Germanic/language/Gmc_W_GHgh_Ydsh_USA_NewYork_Dl
• http://www.soundcomparisons.com/#/en/Malakula/language/Oce_Van_Mal_East_SCtr_Pangkumu_Datisman_Dl has problems with the numerals and othethe words.
  --> other words are coorected. numbers are just not transcribed (no transcription in the excel for the numbers (Rgn 6)

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Transcriptions do not match sound files

For Germanic study:

• http://www.soundcomparisons.com/#/en/Germanic/language/Gmc_W_Fri_East_Sater_Schaeddel_Dl mismatches for one, two, three only

For Malakula study:
In some Malakula languages, there's a mismatch that affects many words in that language. Listen to 'woman' in the languages below, for example: the transcription is clearly for another word, and does not match the sound file. (And a few more examples and you'll hear/see the other mismatches.

There are two possible causes:

1. There is a problem with the excel grid, which does not sync correctly with the big sound file for this language, so the segmentation and export went wrong.
2. When the transcriptions were pasted in from Aviva's own excel file into the SndComp transcriptions template, there was a mismatch between word and transcription that started at some point in the transcriptions list. 'Woman' should be the transcription in the next cell down, for example.

We need to (manually) identify all the languages affected, and go back to fix whatever is the cause in each case, and either re-segment the sound files, or re-create the SQL transcription files.

• http://www.soundcomparisons.com/#/en/Malakula/language/Oce_Van_Mal_West_Sth_Naahai_Mbatmbang_Dl
  shifted in Excel
• http://www.soundcomparisons.com/#/bi/Malakula/language/Oce_Van_Mal_Mlt_Avava_Bangaasak_Dl
  SQL mixed up
• http://www.soundcomparisons.com/#/de/Malakula/language/Oce_Van_Bislama_Std
  other, thatch, how, bad, true
• http://www.soundcomparisons.com/#/de/Malakula/language/Oce_Van_Bislama_Acc
  bad, true, other, thatch, how
• http://www.soundcomparisons.com/#/en/Malakula/language/Oce_Van_Mal_Nth_WSth_VenenTaute_Alpalak_Dl
  shy/ashamed, wife, leaf, I, we (both, incl), thou
• http://www.soundcomparisons.com/#/en/Malakula/language/Oce_Van_Mal_Nth_WSth_VenenTaute_Benmara_Dl
  completely wrong transcription: old, bad, dry, ear, blood, man, child, wife, husband, tail, sky, leaf, cloud, come, stand, eat, poud, fear, open, what, who, above!!!, day
• Oce_Van_Mal_Nth_WNth_MaluaBay_EspiegelsBaySolwota_Dl
• Oce_Van_Mal_Nth_WNth_MaluaBay_EspiegelsBayLitebral_Dl
• Oce_Van_Mal_Nth_WNth_MaluaBay_EspiegelsBayUnspecified_Dl
  - [ ] completely wrong transcription: smoke, you (both) (the right transcription is under you (all))
  - [ ] to adapt initial/final sounds: you (all), how (--> K is not a symbol of IPA)
  - [ ] this language is not shown on the right site/table
• Oce_Van_Mal_Nth_WNth_MaluaBay_Coast_Dl
  - [ ] completely wrong transcription: right, left, dirty, man, husband, dog
  - [ ] to adapt initial/final sounds: cut, we both excl (M ist not a symbol of IPA)
• Oce_Van_Mal_Nth_WNth_MaluaBay_Petarmul_Dl
  - [ ] completely wrong transcription: small (maybe wrong sound, not the transc)
• Oce_Van_Mal_Nth_WNth_MaluaBay_Tiptir_Dl
• Oce_Van_Mal_Nth_WNth_MaluaBay_Marasup_Dl
  transcription of 7husband/ is there but it seems that the second part of it is wrong
• Oce_Van_Mal_Nth_WNth_Najit_Tanmial_Dl
• http://www.soundcomparisons.com/#/en/Malakula/language/Oce_Van_Mal_Nth_WNth_Nese_Sanboise_Dl
  left (there are two different lexemes, only one is online)
• Oce_Van_Mal_Nth_ESth_Tirax_Olamb_Dl
  pain, near --> transcr is wrong
• Oce_Van_Mal_Nth_WSth_VenenTaute_Benenavet_Dl
  dry, --> sound file is missing
  blood, eye, far, wife, rat, sky, leaf, smoke, cloud, come, stand, dream, kill, hear, pound, split, dog, hold, open --> wrong transcription

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Transcriptions too long and strange

• http://www.soundcomparisons.com/#/en/Romance/language/Rce_It_Isl_Sard2Log_C_Ghilarza_Town_Dl

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Transcriptions missing on the website

• http://www.soundcomparisons.com/#/en/Germanic/language/Gmc_W_GHgh_Ydsh_USA_NewYork_Dl

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Both sound files and transcriptions missing on the website

• http://www.soundcomparisons.com/#/en/Germanic/language/Gmc_W_GHgh_Ydsh_USA_NewYork_Dl
• Oce_Van_Mal_Nth_WNth_MaluaBay_EspiegelsBayUnspecified_Dl
  1-10, 1000, liver, husband, near, other, head, lake, ash, meat, fruit, lie down, swim, sew, dig, cook, work, we incl, we ixcl, they both, no/not, above, when

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Transcription of lex2 online, but the sound is missing

• http://www.soundcomparisons.com/#/en/Germanic/language/Gmc_W_Dut_Limb_SE_Eygelshoven_Dl
• http://www.soundcomparisons.com/#/en/Germanic/language/Gmc_W_GLow_DwLS_Grg_Veenkoloniaals_Dl
• http://www.soundcomparisons.com/#/en/Germanic/language/Gmc_W_GLow_DwLS_GOv_Borculo_Dl
• http://www.soundcomparisons.com/#/en/Germanic/language/Gmc_W_GHgh_Alm_Hght_Graubunden_Dl

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no master TextGrid found

Region1

• Oce_Van_Mal_Nth_WSth_VenenTaute_Unmet_Dl
  we both incl, below --> sound file is missing
• Oce_Van_Mal_Nth_WSth_VenenTaute_Hamax_Dl
  seven, egg, thunder --> sound file is missing

Region 2

• Oce_Van_Mal_Nth_ESth_Tirax_Bethel_Dl
  small, hair, breast, swim, fear, shoot, what, who --> sound file is missing
  neck --> wrong transcription

Region 6

• there is Oce_Van_Mal_East_NCtr_Neverver_Sakan_Dl online but in the Rgn6-Excel it is called either
  Oce_Van_Mal_East_NCtr_Neverver_LingarakhSakan_Dl (new) or wl_0041_Neverver_02 (old), in Avivas compiled transcriptions sheet it is called "15-41 Neverver_Sakan". I only could find Oce_Van_Mal_East_NCtr_Neverver_LingarakhSakan_Dl on OC but there are just a few words in this recording. much less than there are online --> left the language for later DDA
• Oce_Van_Mal_East_SCtr_Tesmbol_Usus_Dl

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Languages in the Transcription Excel file but not on the website

• Oce_Van_Mal_East_Sth_Avok_Shiaf_Dl

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Language is NEITHER in Avivas compiled transcriptions NOR in Lauras Rgn-tables BUT online

• http://soundcomparisons.com/#/en/Malakula/language/Oce_Van_Mal_Nth_ESth_UWRA_UripivTautuVillage_Dl

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empty pages

• http://soundcomparisons.com/#/en/Malakula/language/Oce_Van_Mal_East_NCtr_Tape_Tautu2_Dl
  --> both speaker are in http://soundcomparisons.com/#/en/Malakula/language/Oce_Van_Mal_East_NCtr_Tape_Tautu_Dl

[LuPaschen]

Adding random stuff here, updating regularly

Germanic: Central German

• Luxemburg: Decide what to do with 'hear!', where sound file does not match orthographic form
• This is actually an issue for Bibiko: Make sure orthographical forms ('Spell1') are displayed even when they are identical to the standard forms, cf. https://soundcomparisons.com/#/de/Germanic/language/Gmc_W_GCtl_W_FrM_Kolsch_Dl , which looks messy now
• Manebach: Missing sound file for 'see!' (transcription is there)
• Change short name of "Thüringen, Nord-Osten: Mansfeld: Hettstedt" from "Thüringen Nord-Ost: Mansfeld" to "Thür. NO: Mansfeld" and put it next to the other Thuringian recordings

Germanic: Upper German

• Missing sound files for 'daughter' and 'north' in Alsace S.: Hirtzbach (transcriptions are there)
• Missing sound files for 'keck' and 'Nadel (2)' for Schweiz: Graubünden (transcriptions are there)
• Missing sound files for 'Zahn' and 'sehr' for Liechtenstein: Walser (transcriptions are there)
• Missing sound file for 'Horn' for Elsass: Zentral (transcription is there)
• Remove sound file for 'fast' in Central German: Franconian, Rhine: Lorraine (the speaker says "schnell"...)
• The recording site of Thierhaupten is seriously messed up. Under https://soundcomparisons.com/#/de/Germanic/language/Gmc_W_GHgh_ABv_Ctl_Thierhaupten_Dl , we find the correct sound files from Thierhaupten but the short and the long name say "Pfaffenhofen", and the transcriptions are those of the Pfaffenhofen recordings. Under https://soundcomparisons.com/#/de/Germanic/language/Gmc_W_GHgh_ABv_Ctl_Pfaffenhofen_Dl , we find the correct sound files from Pfaffenhofen (but no transcriptions).

Germanic: Diaspora German

• Missing transcription for 'all' in Transylvanian ‘Saxon’: Michelsberg [=Cişnădioara], please check your field notes and find out what the speaker actually said
• Missing sound file alternative form of 'foot' in Transylvanian ‘Saxon’: Michelsberg [=Cişnădioara] (transcription is there)
• Missing sound file alternative form of 'new' in Transylvanian ‘Saxon’: Schäßburg [=Sighişoara] (transcription is there)
• A dozen or so missing sound files for Wolgadeutsch: Dittel [=Aleshniki] (transcriptions are there)
• The sound file for 'heart' in Stettin needs checking (wrong mark-up?)

Romance

• A number of words are transcribed as "--" : Clarify if ".." was intended, i.e. marking them as "missing sound file"