prooflisteners

Noun

prooflistener (plural prooflisteners)

1. (rare) One who listens, usually to a recording, for errors.
   • Often a prooflistener could clearly discriminate the words after repeated listening to a passage which the transcriber had previously found unintelligible.1979, Hartvig Dahl, “Characteristics of the Corpus”, in Word Frequencies of Spoken American English, Essex, Conn.; Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire: Verbatim, →ISBN, page v, column 1