Prooflisten

Then we prooflistened to the entire recording against the drafted transcript, and proofread, revised, and edited again, and then prepared each manuscript for publication in book form.

Our data are taken from verbatim transcripts of tape-recorded psychoanalytic sessions. These have been exhaustively prooflistened and punctuated so that, sort of a phonemic rendering, their reading is as close to a translation of the auditory record as we are capable of.

An interesting additional bit of information is buried in Bollard’s Preface, to wit: /… [P]ronunciations were actually “proof[-]listened.” Through facilities made available by AT&T Bell Laboratories of Murray Hill, New Jersey, all pronunciations were actually heard using speech-synthesis technology.

After he lost his sight, he had spent an insomniac night trying to figure out what kind of work he might still be able to do, and had hatched the following plan: He would spend 12 hours a day in front of the television set, prooflistening for mistakes in grammar and pronunciation. He figured that if he charged $5 a mistake, he would become a rich man. His plan had evaporated in the harsh light of morning, however, when he decided that, like the software company, the networks were not Fadimans and would therefore not wish to be improved.

Step 3. Listen and Correct (prooflisten): Learners listen to the spoken version of their text read aloud by the ABAIR voice. The user chooses the dialect they wish and the gender of the speaker. This provides not only exposure to native-like speech, but provides essentially a proof-listening tool which is a powerful aid for self-correction.