Thank you so much for volunteering to help edit transcripts for GFPID Chronicles! It’s a lot of work to produce these, and we appreciate your help so very, very much.
What you need to know:
We will send you a document created by an audio transcription app. These apps are far from perfect at the best of times, and when there are multiple voices and people talking over each other the results can be very inaccurate indeed (though sometimes accidentally amusing).
Your task is to take the transcript, compare it to the audio from the video (or the audio file we may send you), correct the mistakes, and organize it sensibly. Ideally we would like to get the edited transcript back in two or three days, because we want to get the transcripts up as quickly as we can. But there’s some leeway on that.
When we get the edited transcription back, someone will review it a second time, because often a new set of ears will catch things the first person didn’t. This editor will also make sure naming conventions and other things are consistent throughout. Once that’s done, we’ll add your part to the overall transcript and post it, either as a whole or in sections.
What you need to do:
- Compare the transcript to the video audio (or the audio file if we send you one) and correct the mistakes.
- Delete all timestamps EXCEPT the ones at the beginning and end, that say “GFPID VIDEO TIMESTAMP APPROX __:__:__”. (The transcription app adds timestamps as it goes, but because the audio was broken up into smaller sections to be run through the app, they are meaningless.)
- Organize the transcript by speaker. (Note that the transcript breaks speakers up into multiple lines and often adds the beginning of Person B’s words to the end of Person A’s words.)
Previously posted transcripts will provide a guide if you are confused about what the results should look like.
If you can’t correct everything:
- If you don’t know who the speaker is, leave it as SPEAKER.
- If you can’t make out what someone is saying, put [unclear]
- If people are talking over each other and it’s unclear, put [multiple voices]
A last note
It can take an amazing amount of time to edit a transcription, and we know people are busy. If it turns out that we have sent you more than you can deal with, just let us know and do what you can. (If you only edit half of what we send, it still helps us!)
We at GFPID Chronicles believe that transcriptions provide an important resource for our community. Thank you so much for supporting our work!