Prooflisten

Quick meaning: Prooflisten is a verb meaning (ambitransitive) To listen, usually to a recording, for errors.

Meaning

(ambitransitive) To listen, usually to a recording, for errors.

Example Sentences

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.

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.

Word Forms

• prooflistens
• prooflistening
• prooflistened
• proof-listen

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include prelisten, prerecord, pre-record, prelay, predub, preview.

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