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A [?] left in the finished lyric

Suggestion unknown.unresolved No automatic fix

Aim to transcribe all audible lyrics. Use [?] only when careful listening still cannot determine what is being sung.

Convention: A lyric you can't make out is [?].

Example

Flagged by this rule
[Verse]
I heard [?]

In the workbench this reads: Try to identify the lyric marked [?].

Accepted by this rule
[Verse]
I heard every word

The fix

This finding has no automatic fix — resolving it is a judgment call, so the workbench points at the exact range and leaves the edit to you.

The convention and its limits

This check detects the pattern shown above. An accepted example passes this check; it is not a review of the whole transcription.

Source

The source cited by this check:

Unknown lyric marker (opens in a new tab) verified Use [?] for unknown lyrics
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