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@@ -187,7 +187,7 @@ Six optional augmentation components are provided to be selected, configured and
   - Noise Perturbation (need background noise audio files)
   - Impulse Response (need impulse audio files)
 
-In order to inform the trainer of what augmentation components are needed and what their processing orders are, it is required to prepare in advance a *augmentation configuration file* in [JSON](http://www.json.org/) format. For example:
+In order to inform the trainer of what augmentation components are needed and what their processing orders are, it is required to prepare in advance an *augmentation configuration file* in [JSON](http://www.json.org/) format. For example:
 
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@@ -226,7 +226,7 @@ If you wish to train your own better language model, please refer to [KenLM](htt
 
 #### English LM
 
-The English corpus is from the [Common Crawl Repository](http://commoncrawl.org) and you can download it from [statmt](http://data.statmt.org/ngrams/deduped_en). We use part en.00 to train our English languge model. There are some preprocessing steps before training:
+The English corpus is from the [Common Crawl Repository](http://commoncrawl.org) and you can download it from [statmt](http://data.statmt.org/ngrams/deduped_en). We use part en.00 to train our English language model. There are some preprocessing steps before training:
 
   * Characters not in \[A-Za-z0-9\s'\] (\s represents whitespace characters) are removed and Arabic numbers are converted to English numbers like 1000 to one thousand.
   * Repeated whitespace characters are squeezed to one and the beginning whitespace characters are removed. Notice that all transcriptions are lowercase, so all characters are converted to lowercase.