Quickly compare multiple VO takes in context

[jamesbarner]

I often work with VO files that come to me as a .wav in which there are multiple takes of certain words or phrases that are recorded sequntially... in other words, the talent simply repeats the phrase or word with a different inflection, sometimes as many as 5 times. I have been cutting the segments and moving them to a new track and aligning them (see image), but I cannot seem to figure out a faster way to jump between takes than soloing and "un-soloing" or muting and unmuting. I set up a loop so it is just the immediately preceding and following few words, but it is still hard to manage to seamlessly swap which is played.  I think it's called punching, but I'm not really sure? Either way, this is a huge time suck, and honestly I'm never sure if I'm getting the best combinations because I can't do a quick compare in context.   

Any suggestions?

[SteveG_AudioMasters_]

Punching works by having the clips you want to select from stacked on top of each other on one track, and selecting the one you want to listen to - only the one on top plays. The quickest way to reorder the clips is to right-click on the top one, and select 'bring clip to front' and a list of all the stacked clips is given - you select the one you want. Does help if they all have unique identifiers though...

[jamesbarner]

"having the clips you want to select from stacked on top of each other on one track,"

And how would I go about making that happen? How do you layer multiple clips into one track?

[SteveG_AudioMasters_]

You drag them and place them there, on top of each other.