Smart Start Transcription

One-on-One Interview: is one person interviewing another person, using any combination of video or audio sources. In one-on-one interviews the interviewer’s questions are paraphrased for clarity. Since most interviewer's questions are pre-written, it is usually not necessary to transcribe the question verbatim.

In one-on-one interviews the interviewee’s responses are transcribed verbatim. There are two types of verbatim transcripts for One-on-One Interviews:

Clean Verbatim – in which non-verbal utterances such as “uh” and Uhms”, repeated words or stuttering are omitted.

Actual Verbatim - in which non-verbal utterances such as “uh” and Uhms”, repeated words or stuttering are transcribed.
 

Good Audio - typically involves material produced by production crews using professional recording techniques and has the following characteristics:

Difficult Audio – involves audio sources which require more time to transcribe due to the nature of the video/audio which may pertain to any of the following challenges:

• Professionally recorded and clear audio
• Native English Speakers, using standard American Dialect
• Accents (British, foreign, heavy regional, or otherwise)
• Poor sound quality
• Background Noise (office noise, music, etc.)
• Interview conducted on the move
• Recordings on Micro-cassette
• Low quality digital files
• Phone Interviews
• Most interviews conducted outdoors
• Two people being interviewed simultaneously