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Human Noises

Symbol <Ger"ausch>
  <Lachen>




Speakers also produce sounds that have no real meaning, such as laughing, coughing, swallowing etc. . These are all labelled as <Ger"ausch> (German for noise). If one of these noises occurs for a longer period of time, without being interrupted (a speaker laughing for example), a single label will be sufficient. As usual, punctuation marks come first.

w001_ptd_001_AAA: das wollte ich aber nicht wissen . <Lachen>

w001_ptd_001_AAA: <Ger"ausch> in welcher Stra"se liegt das ?



Susen Rabold
2002-08-12