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The document outlines two transcription styles: Clean Read and Full Verbatim. Clean Read focuses on grammatical correctness and readability, omitting speech errors and filler words, while Full Verbatim captures every utterance, including speech errors and filler words. Additionally, it provides guidelines for numerical and time formats, as well as a brief description of the transcription process and quality control checks.

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amberscript transcriber test

The document outlines two transcription styles: Clean Read and Full Verbatim. Clean Read focuses on grammatical correctness and readability, omitting speech errors and filler words, while Full Verbatim captures every utterance, including speech errors and filler words. Additionally, it provides guidelines for numerical and time formats, as well as a brief description of the transcription process and quality control checks.

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1.

Clean read and full verbatim: Distinctions

Clean read (most used): Goal – capture what has been said. End result:
Grammatically correct transcript, with good reading flow.

Examples: Organization/company meetings, municipality meetings,


presentations, etc.

Full verbatim: Goal – capture how something has been said. End result:
Precise transcript, as close to audio as possible.

Examples: Research interviews like patient-doctor conversations, speech


analysis, legal documents like court hearings, focus group interviews where
the emotions of the interviewee play an important role, etc.

1.1 Clean read

The transcribed text does NOT include:

 Speech errors

 False starts (unless they add information)

 Stutters

 Repetitions. Note: Keep repetitions of words that express emphasis:


No, no, no. I am very, very happy.

 Filler words: Words often excessively used by the speaker but when
you take them out, you’re left with perfectly understandable
sentences. uh, um, *you know, *like, *I mean, *so, *kind of, well, sort
of…
Be mindful of the context. Some of these filler words do not always
function as filler words.

 Expressions should be kept regardless of transcription type: Oh my


God, Oh dear, Oh my, Oh boy, Oh, et cetera.

 Slang words must be written as "got you" instead of "gotcha", "going


to" instead of "gonna", "want to" instead of "wanna", "because"
instead of "'cause" et cetera.
 "Yeah", "yep", "yap", "yup", must be written as "yes" or as "all right."
Note, do NOT use alright.

 Never spell "Ok" or "OK." It must always be spelled as "Okay."

 Avoid starting phrases with conjunctions in clean read. If you really


need to add the conjunction, just expand the sentence. For example: "I
went outside but forgot to bring my umbrella."

For clean read: Omit all the "yeah", "yes" reactions to retain a fluent text
unless they are answers to given questions.

DO NOT remove filler words if they change the meaning of the phrase.

Clean Read Example:

Speaker 1: Hey, Amber, I'd like to ask you something.


Amber: Okay.
Speaker 1: Someone told me, transcribers must now complete a theoretical
test before they can sign up. I'm not sure if that is true. Is it true?
Amber: Yes.

1.2 Full Verbatim

The text is transcribed exactly as it sounds and includes ALL the utterances
of the speakers. Those are:

 Speech errors: "I went to the bank on Thursday-- no, Friday."

 False starts: I, [uh], wanted-- I have dreamed of becoming a


musician.

 Filler words: [uh], kind of, sort of, I mean, you know…

 Slang words: Kinda, gotta, gotcha, betcha, wanna, dunno…

 Stutters: I-I went to the bank last Tu-Thursday.

 Repetitions: I went- I went to the bank last Friday.

 Only use these forms for the affirmative/negative:

o Mm-hmm, Mm (affirmative) or Mm-mm (negative)

o Uh-huh (affirmative) or Uh-uh (negative)


Full Verbatim Example:

Speaker 1: Hey, Amber, I'd like to ask you something.


Amber: Okay.
Speaker 1: Someone told me, transcribers must now complete a theoretical
test before they can sign up.
Amber: Yeah.
Speaker 1: But I'm not sure if that is true.
Amber: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Okay, uh, is it true?
Amber: Yep.

 3.2 Numerical

o The number zero up to and including nine need to be written out:


one, three, nine

o The number 10 and above can be written in digits: 10, 11, 12


etc.

o If a number is at the start of a new sentence, it is to be written


out fully: Twenty-two people, Three birds, etc.

o Use digits if the figure has 5 or more digits: 50,000

o Figures that exceed a million or billion are written as 45 million

o Use the terms first, second, third, etc., but for higher numbers
use 11th, 12th, etc.

o If a price is named and it is a round number, do not use


decimals: $15

o Functions and their mathematical signs are written out fully: plus,
minus, times, divided by, etc.

o Hyphenate all written-out fractions: Five-eights

o Mixed fractions are spelled out in words: five and a half

o Use a comma for large figures: 1,003,298 dollars

o Use a decimal point for decimal numbers: 0.42 pounds

o Phone numbers are written as digits: 201-555-5555


3.3 Time format

o Time of the day:

 Use numerals when exact time is specified 9:30 in the


morning

 When using o’clock, spell out the numbers: eleven o’clock.

Examples:

o If the speaker says “nine” and it is implied that it is a time of


day, write as 9:00

o If the speaker says “nine o’clock”, write as nine o’clock or

o If the speaker says “nine thirty”, write 9:30

o If the speaker says “nine thirty AM”, write 9:30 AM

o Spell out words or phrases that don’t include the exact time: half
past, quarter of, midnight, noon

o Use digits to indicate degrees or radial quantities: 270 degrees,


angle of 45 degrees

o The following words should be written out in full: infinity, faculty,


percent, prime, degrees, phi, theta, etc.

o Times and dates are written as digits: June 30, 1934 or the 30th
of June 1934

o Decades may be written as: the eighties, the 80s or the 1980s

 Short process description:


o A customer uploads an audio / video for manual
transcription. The customer indicates if it should be in
clean read or full verbatim, the language and the amount
of speakers.
o As a transcriber you will get notified of new available jobs
through email. All available jobs for you to claim
show up in your dashboard.
o You will have 48 hours hours (regular) to complete
the transcription job in the Amberscript Editor. In
other words, you will revise the text that was
automatically generated by our speech recognition
engine.
o Once you’re done, you will submit the job for review
o One of our Quality Controllers will check your work.
The Quality Controller will either:

6A. Deny the quality. You will be notified through email


and will have 24 hours to correct and resubmit the job.
The feedback from the Quality Controller can be found in
the Notes tab of the job.

6B. Accept the quality. You will also be notified and the
file will be delivered to the customer.

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