From transcript corrections to an analysis you control

New word and utterance controls complete the editable judgments behind Arc’s language analysis.

Work done September 26 – October 2, 2026 · Last edited October 3, 2026

Arc already supported correcting the transcript and its annotations. This update fills out that work with control over how words and utterances contribute to the language measures: editable clause assignments and morpheme splits, plus two utterance-level choices—whether an utterance belongs in the analysis and whether it counts as a sentence or fragment.

Clause assignments and morpheme splits appear beneath the words; sentence status and inclusion sit beside each utterance. With these additions, clinicians can work through what was said and how it should be counted in the same transcript, with their decisions carrying through to the analysis and report.

Transcript showing editable clause assignments, morpheme splits, and utterance labels — Clause and morpheme annotations beneath the words, with sentence status and inclusion beside each utterance. Synthetic sample.

Two related changes support this work:

One Transcript screen. The separate Transcription, Language, and Phonology screens have been combined. Presets control which annotations are visible for transcription, language coding, or speech coding.
A new Review screen before the report. This work highlighted the need to inspect the resulting numbers separately from the transcript’s annotations, before preparing the report. Review begins that work, providing a separate view of the counts and a place to choose which measures appear in the report.

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