- Types - Distinct words - |V| - Tokens - All words - N - Related quantities - Have equations that estimate - Disfluencies - Fragments - Broken/half spoken words - Fillers - Oo - Uh - May strip - May be helpful - Speaker may start clause again - Clitic - Part of a word that can’t stand on its own - What’re - Contractions # Edit Distance - Distance between words - Number of insertions deletions - Similarity