TRANSCRIPTION TYPES

There are two main types of transcription:

• Intelligent verbatim transcription (also known as smart verbatim or non-verbatim)

• True verbatim transcription (also known as strict verbatim, or simply, verbatim)

 

Each style of transcription is useful under certain circumstances. While intelligent verbatim strives to capture what is said, true verbatim also aims to capture how something is said.  

 

Verbatim transcription rules

True verbatim, also known as strict verbatim or simply verbatim, is a style of transcription that attempts to capture every speaker utterance. As such Verbatim Transcription is most commonly used in legal transcripts. 

 

Verbatim transcripts include:

·       Stutters

·       Filler speech, including “um,” “uh,” etc.

·       Repeated words

·       Speaker idiosyncrasies such as the repetitive use of “like,” “actually,” “sort of,” “kind of”, etc.

·       Interjections made by an interviewer or other speakers, such as “yeah” and “mm-hmm”

·       Non-speech sounds, including coughing and throat clearing, laughter.

·       Pauses longer than 5 seconds are recorded 

·       False starts and redirects

·       Run-on sentences

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