Question

In a clean verbatim file, you can add words that are not heard in the audio to ensure the file is grammatically correct. Is this true or false? Please type your answer, from the below options, in the box below. Please do not add punctuation after your answer.

Answer 1

A “Clean Verbatim” transcription is a verbatim transcrit of your audio. We do not paraphrase the interviewee responses!! Our transcribers will transcribe your interviewee, research subject, or the person on-camera verbatim. Our default style is Clean Verbatim. Unless you really, really need otherwise, we recommend this choice.

A “True Verbatim” transcript is the same as a Clean Verbatim transcript except that we also transcribe a representation of the non-verbal utterances like the “uhms and uhs”, st-st-stutters, guffaws, filler phrases, and false starts.

We charge extra for True Verbatim as it takes longer to transcribe these types of materials.