First of all, this is my own opinion and not anything officially approved by Casting Words. Over the past few months, I've had a chance to see many transcripts and do some myself. When I first started transcribing, I tried to make the text an exact replica of everything that the speakers said, recording every ummm, ah, you know, and partial sentence start. Over time, I've come to realize that readability can be greatly improved by abandoning that approach. We speak and write differently and I think that has to be taken into account when transcribing. Here are three simple things that you can do to make your transcripts much more readable:
1) Eliminate "you knows".
2) Eliminate false sentence starts.
3) Repair sentence fragments when possible.
So, unless the notes say otherwise, I think it's best to favor readability over 100 percent accuracy by following the rules above.
Posted by bjs
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