Transcriptions and Their Editing Primer Tutorial

What is a transcription? Well, Wikipedia says …

Transcription refers to the process of converting sounds (voice, music etc.) into letters or musical notes, or producing a copy of something in another medium.

Invariably, whatever “first responder” collector of the …

• video and/or audio … aligned with, in this case …
• text … version of the corresponding speech

… may be imperfect in producing your finished transcription, and depending on what use the transcription accuracy is to the end recipient, that transcription text may need a separate editing procedure applied.

For a project we were involved in at the editing stage, that “first responder” collector phase one used …

• Microsoft Teams
• … used remotely

… and the editing phase two we were involved in used, on this macOS MacBook Air …

• QuickTime Player … to play the video and …
• LibreOffice … Document … to edit the text

… as a successful combination of software and hardware solution constituents to arrive at a satisfactory set of transcriptions.

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And then sometimes, we find we use recorded transcriptions, say, from a Chatbox discussion, for recording and reminding purposes, like we prefer these days, getting help regarding our Apache/PHP/MySql AlmaLinux web server hosts, the great Crazy Domains. We’ve preferred this to ringing up for about two years now.

Our voicemail messages are often transcribed, usefully, as well.

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