I won’t be pasting the txt of the transcript, but it was from a conversation about 20 minutes long, and is 3,592 words. Very tough to get a format down, couldn’t figure out the best way to get pauses, stutters, and simultaneous speech represented in a way that felt true and readable. Fidelity is tough, who knew (also relevant to conversation…)
The Politics of Transcription — Notes
— Interpretive Decisions (what is transcribed)
— Representational Decisions (how is it transcribed)
both contextualized by process, dependent upon transcriber’s own expectations and beliefs about the speakers and their interaction, the intended audience of the transcript, and its purpose.
— Naturalized Transcription (text conforms to written discourse conventions)
— Denaturalized Transcription (retains links to oral discourse forms)
— General Thoughts
Very interesting that the author of the transcript is so much more a part of it than one would think., You think of writing a conversation as a 1 to 1 transfer of information, but so much can be left out or added.
In middle school, I won a state wide contest in “Listening” (I can’t remember the type of competition this event was for), where I had to listen to a recording and take notes on it, then answer questions based on my notes. Fascinating to think about in this context, and a funny bit of my past that I hadn’t remembered until now…
— Interesting Key for Symbols:
Each line represents an intonation unit.
. end of intonation unit; falling intonation
, end of intonation unit; fall-rise intonation
? end of intonation unit; rising intonation
— self-interruption; break in the intonational unit
- self-interruption; break in the word, sound abruptly cut off
: length
underline emphatic stress or increased amplitude
(.) pause of 0.5 seconds or less
(n.n) pause of greater than 0.5 seconds, measured by a stopwatch
h exhalation (e.g., laughter, sigh); each token marks one pulse
( ) transcriber comment
< > uncertain transcription
(()) nonvocal noise
[ ] overlap beginning and end
[[ ]] second overlap in proximity to the first
([ ]) phonetic transcription
= latching (no pause between speaker turns)
— Looked up on how to transcribe stuttering, since I do that a lot, and found an interesting article on verbatim vs clean copy transcripts:
https://www.speechpad.com/transcription/verbatim