Definition: In linguistics, "chases" is a term used to describe the process of transcribing or recording speech sounds into written text. This involves inserting pauses between each word in a sentence to give it a more natural sounding sound as opposed to the typical spoken pronunciation. Chapes are often used in conjunction with other techniques such as vowelization and stress analysis, which helps to improve the quality of speech recordings for various purposes such as language translation, training, or research.