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When you cannot understand the audio at all, instead of guessing, you can mention [inaudible] or [unintelligible] in the transcriptions to indicate that part of the recording wasn't clear to transcribe. You could use symbols like '-' or '....' or write [several inaudible words] to indicate unclear sounds.

In cases when the word is recognizable but cut off, it should be labelled by spelling as much of the word as can be heard, followed by a dash. For example "oran-" would label the word "orange" that was interrupted before the "g" sound.

OVERLAPPED SPEECH: Overlapped speech (when both speakers talk at the same time) is marked with an ASTERISK ?*? at the beginning and at the end of each speaker's overlapped utterance. For example: <.362> <<speaker 1>> hello, how *are you*? <.118> <<speaker 2>> *I am fine* and you?

We've covered the kinds of materials transcription applies to, now let's delve into transcription types?edited, verbatim, intelligent, and phonetic. Each has positives and negatives.

Basic Transcription Guidelines Accuracy. Only type the words that are spoken in the audio file. ... US English. Use proper US English capitalization, punctuation and spelling. ... Do Not Paraphrase. ... Do Not Add Additional Information. ... ?Clean Up? Non-Verbatim Jobs. ... Verbatim Work Should Be Truly Verbatim.

Unfinished Thoughts ? Use dashes to indicate falters or incomplete thoughts, rambling speech, or unfinished sentences. Do not use ellipses. Simultaneous Speech ? Include simultaneous speech. Do not finish sentences in the transcript that were not finished during the interview.

Use double dashes -- when there is a change of thought (false start) or a speech error, or to mark an incomplete sentence. Do this: FV Speech error: I went to the bank on Tu-Thursday-- no, Friday.

The best way to transcribe laughter is by using square brackets. [Laughs] is the best way to indicate a speaker laughing. However, if someone is laughing in the background it would be transcribed as [laughter].