28. The method of claim 27, further comprising providing a script to allow supervised speaker identification and thereby improve the speaker identifier segmentation.
27. A method for transcribing a segment of data that includes speech in one or more environments and non-speech data, comprising: inputting the data to a segmenter and producing a series of segments, each segment being given a type identifier tag selected from a predetermined set of classes, wherein the classes include non-speech, telephone speech, noise-corrupted speech, and clean speech, and wherein clean speech segments are further segmented into smaller segments that can be assigned a speaker identifier tag; and transcribing each type identifier tagged segment using a specific system created for that type.