Transcription Types
Intelligent Verbatim - is a format that takes out all of the words we can't help saying like; um, kind of, like, you know - unless they are related to the content and not just a nervous filler. In order to have the style of the person talking I leave the unfinished sentences, abbreviations, and even incorrect grammar.
Using Intelligent Verbatim format is best for lectures, one-on-one interviews, meetings, conferences, and webcasts.
Complete Verbatim - is usually the second type chosen and may be used for important documentation recorded for a possible interview for legal purposes. This type of transcription is necessary for capturing the conversational style of the person talking, their emotions, abbreviations, dialect patterns and those verbal annoyances such as; um, you know, gotta, wanna, etc...
Dealing with this verbatim is more expensive due to it being the most time consuming. All sentences that may have 'false starts', sentences with 'no ending', maybe even drifting off for no apparant reason.
Edited Transcript - this would be used for projects of any organizers to provide a transcript for a lecturer or a focus group that has to capture multiple discussions and take out all the small idiosyncrasies we all love so much!
This type of transcription takes a bit more time but not nearly as the Complete Verbatim.