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From: Lisa Morgan
Date: Sep 2, 2003 8:06AM

Thanks very much for your comments. That helps a lot. I'll certainly
recommend that we continue on with word-for-word transcription. The
situation we were running into was that the Web site builders had a
manuscript for the text of a clip, say, but when the sound person recorded
it, he changed a few words (e.g., used "I'd" instead of "I would" and so on,
to make the spoken text flow more naturally). So what the builders were
including as the transcript wasn't *exactly* the same as what was in the
actual clip, but very, very close. However, it sounds, from the feedback
I've gotten, that it really isn't acceptable to just say to ourselves, well,
it's close enough.

Thanks again, Lisa Morgan

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From: Andrew Kirkpatrick [mailto: <EMAIL REMOVED> ]
Sent: Friday, August 29, 2003 12:08 PM
To: <EMAIL REMOVED>
Subject: Re: Audio transcripts


Who decides what is important? Is the fifth time a person says "uh" in a
row important? Probably not, but there are subtle nuances in language that
some people may pay attention to even if others don't.

The standard in captioning is to caption verbatim, and I recommend adhering
to that for transcripts as well.

AWK

On 8/29/03 12:17 PM, "Lisa Morgan" < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:

> When creating a transcript of an audio clip, does every single word need
to
> appear in the transcript, exactly as it is spoken in the clip? We have a
> situation at my company where some people think that's the standard, and
> others feel that as long as all of the important ideas and concepts -- the
> intent of the clip -- is conveyed, it doesn't matter if every word is the
> same.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Lisa Morgan
>

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