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Contract Type FiledNovember 7th, 2007This paper analyzes inter-labeler agreement of label choice and boundary placement for human phonetic transcriptions of continuous telephone speech in di erent languages. In experiment one, English, German, Mandarin and Spanish are labeled by uent speakers of the languages. In experi- ment two, German and Hindi are labeled by linguists who do not speak the languages. Experiment two uses a some- what ner phonetic transcription set than experiment one. We compare the transcriptions of the utterances in terms of the minimum number of substitutions, insertions and dele- tions needed to map one transcription to the other. Native speakers agree on the average 67.52% of the time at the