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Practice Listening: Highlight Incorrect Words ID: #44518 Short Underwater
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You will hear a recording. Below is a transcription of the recording. Some words in the transcription differ from what the speaker said. Please click on the words that are different.
* Click on the words that are different from what you hear
Result:

Correct Transcript:

In order to study the effects that climate change and pollution have on the environment long term monitoring of the environment is necessary. One of the most important natural environment so never thought of the coral reefs, however, monitoring the fish population and biodiversity is still a challenging task data collection in this kind of environment is labor-intensive requiring divers to count the fish species in a certain area in recent years. Digital video recording has become much cheaper which makes underwater cameras a good alternative for data collection. Furthermore, automatic video processing and pattern recognition are able to process this kind of data, this paper describes an entire system which is being developed to allow marine biologists to analyze large amounts of video data for long term monitoring purposes. To give an indication of the challenges in this project summary is given of the amount of data that the system is expected to process at the moment.
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Printed "population", the speaker says "pollution"

Explanation: In the audio you hear "climate change and pollution have". Both words start with p, so listen to the whole word.

Printed "interval", the speaker says "term"

Explanation: Here the speaker says "long term monitoring". The printed and spoken words start with different letters, and the printed word is much longer.

Printed "coming", the speaker says "certain"

Explanation: The speaker says "a certain area", not "coming". They share the first letter, so listen to the end of the word.

Printed "recent", the speaker says "recording"

Explanation: Listen for "Digital video recording". The spoken word is much longer than the printed word, so listen for extra sounds.

Printed "purchasing", the speaker says "processing"

Explanation: You will hear "automatic video processing". They share first and last letters, so listen carefully to the middle of the word.

Printed "allow", the speaker says "given"

Explanation: On the recording the words are "summary is given of". The printed word does not make sense in the sentence, and it starts with a different letter.

"biodiversity" matches the audio

Explanation: "monitoring the fish population and biodiversity is" has a long word. It looks tricky, but the speaker says it exactly, so do not click it.

"area" matches the audio

Explanation: "count the fish species in a coming area in" has a common word. It seems near a changed word, but the speaker says it as printed, so do not click it.

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