Conversational grunts, such as uhhuh, un-hn, rnrn, and oh are ubiquitous in spoken English, but no satisfactory scheme for transcribing these items exists. This paper describes previous approaches, presents some facts about the phonetics of grunts, proposes a transcription scheme, and evaluates its accuracy. 1 1 T h e I m p o r t a n c e o f C o n v e r s a t i o n a l G r u n t s :Conversation...