4 excellent tips for precise transcription when speaker stutters

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4 Excellent Tips for Precise Transcription

When Speaker Stutters


Transcription process requires a deep level of concentration skill since the people involved have to go through speech quirks, muffles, background noise to finally come up to the end product. Accurate documentation can be a challenge especially in the field of Legal and Medical transcription


FACT: More than 68 million people around the world deal with stuttering issues


Transcribing a person who stutters can be difficult and confusing but practicing some tactics, a transcriptionist can record accurate and precise transcriptions


Here are 4 handy transcription tips for transcribing an audio with speech quirks and hesitations


1. Write out the stutter exactly the way they are spoken


Write out what’s exactly being said in the audio or the interview; e.g. write “ch-ch-ch-chair” instead of “chair”


2. Use Verbatim Transcription


“Verbatim Transcription: a process to type up everything in an audio� The first step can only be achieved really good with the use of verbatim transcription. So, practice this art and you will find no issue in transcribing recordings with speech quirks


3. Intelligent Verbatim Transcription


Intelligent Verbatim focuses on what was said, not how it was said. This process helps a lot in removing irrelevant material out of the audio Use this method to filter out repeated words like “um”, “ch-ch” in “ch-ch-chair” in the stutter.


3. Transcribe exact words


Remove stutters and leave them out completely. This will leave you with accurate and precise documentation of the audio with speech quirks


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