Speaker 1: Hello, everyone, and welcome back to my channel Jennifer Marie VO, where I teach you different ways to make money online. So if you're new to my channel, I teach you a lot of different ways you can make money as a transcriptionist or a transcriber transcribing audio files to text. And I also like to do a bunch of different videos on transcription tips to make your life easier when you are transcribing for different companies. Make sure to subscribe to my channel because I'm always posting new videos on different transcription websites and other different websites where you can make real money online. So today's video is a transcription tip video, and I'm going to teach you the difference between clean versus full verbatim. Now there are many different ways to say the same thing we have clean verbatim, we have non verbatim, we have full verbatim, strict verbatim. So what does this mean? What is the difference between these? And how do I know which one I should be doing for my transcription task. So in this video, I'm going to tell you the difference between them. We're also going to do a practice using an audio file that I recorded myself. And at the end of the video, I'll discuss a few different guidelines with Rev, Transcribe Me, Scriby, and showing you the difference between clean and full verbatim and which is easier to transcribe. So let's get into it. Okay, so there are two main types of transcription. We have clean verbatim transcription. And this is confusing because there are many different ways to say the same thing. This is commonly known as non verbatim, or intelligent verbatim. The second type of transcription is full verbatim transcription. And this is also known as strict verbatim, or just verbatim. So you might have clean or full verbatim, or you might have non verbatim and verbatim. So I would recommend writing this down somewhere because it can get a little confusing. But let's go into what is the difference between these two types of transcription. First, we're going to talk about clean verbatim transcription, also known as non verbatim and intelligent verbatim. The style rules for clean verbatim can vary according to each transcription company. So that is something to keep in mind. However, the rules are generally quite similar. This type of transcription aims to clean up the audio file and remove unnecessary words or utterances. So if someone is saying, for example, I want to go to the store, you wouldn't put in the and ums, you would just write I want to go to the store. This is the most common type of transcription for most transcription companies that you will be working for. Okay, so usually, clients want clean verbatim because it's cleaner. There are instances where people want full verbatim, and we will discuss that a little later. With clean verbatim, we remove the following when transcribing stutters. A stutter is when someone says, for example, surprise, we wouldn't write surprise, we would just write surprise, okay, we would take out the stutter, the beginning sounds. We also remove filler speech, including um, and so forth. We remove repetition of words unless useful for emphasis. So if someone said, I really, really like pizza, we would include really, really, because the person has said really twice, because they are emphasizing how much they like pizza. So you don't have to take out one of the reallys. But if someone said, I want, want to go to the store, and they were stuck on their words, we would only put I want to go to the store because they didn't mean to say want twice, it was just they were stuck on their words. We also remove crutch words, including the repetitive use of like, actually sort of, kind of, you know, etc. We remove crutch words when they don't add meaning to a sentence. So many times when people are speaking naturally, they add in these other little words. But they don't add any value to the sentence. For example, I like want to like go to like the store like tomorrow, you don't need to put in all those likes, they're not important. I want to go to the store tomorrow, you would take out all the likes. We also remove interjections or feedback words that are made by the interviewer. In the event that you're transcribing an interview, such as Yeah, and so let's say we're listening to a file that we have to transcribe. And the person is talking and they say, when I was young, I was born in Toronto, and the interviewer says, Mm hmm. Yeah. And then I grew up in Owen sound, you would remove the interviewer saying, Mm hmm. Yeah, because that's not adding any value. It's just the interviewer encouraging the person to continue talking. So it's not relevant. We also remove some non speech sounds including coughing, and throat clearing. So if someone's like, we don't need to include that because it's not important to what is being said in clean verbatim, and also false starts. Okay, now we have full verbatim transcription, which is also known as strict verbatim, full verbatim, or just verbatim. Full verbatim transcription includes every word from an audio file, the audio file should be transcribed exactly the way as those words were originally spoken. So you would include every like every, every, um, everything you hear, you transcribe, unless the transcription company says something differently, like they don't want you to include coughs, for example, verbatim transcriptions are often required for audio files of police interrogations, and other forms of legal transcription, interviews for research purposes, etc. So for example, let's say or you were transcribing a discussion between a detective and a witness, of course, you have to transcribe everything that you hear, because that would be very important in a legal case to hear everything, you wouldn't want someone to say that what was transcribed was false, it has to be exact. So that is one case. And there are certain transcription companies that require that and that handle legal transcription. So verbatim or full verbatim is used in those cases. So me personally, I believe that it is more difficult and time consuming to transcribe strict verbatim than clean verbatim. Some people maybe prefer full or strict verbatim, but I think it's easier to transcribe, you know, a clean version of what people are saying, then having to listen over and over again, to make sure you include every stutter or every utterance and sound that a person says, but you might have a different opinion, maybe for you, it's easier to just transcribe what you hear. So you don't have to think of what you have to remove. So everyone has a different preference. So again, with full verbatim, we include the following when transcribing stutters, filler speech, including um, er, etc. Repeated words, all crutch words like, like, actually sort of kind of, etc. interjections or feedback words made by someone including Yeah. And non speech sounds including coughing and throat clearing, and also false starts. Okay, so now we are going to transcribe the same audio file in both full verbatim and clean verbatim. So I have recorded a sample audio on my mobile phone that we will use to practice transcribing. I'm sorry if it doesn't sound natural, but I was trying to include a lot of extra sound so that it would be a little bit more difficult for you to transcribe. So let's see how you do. So I want you to listen to the audio file now, and try to transcribe this using full verbatim. So transcribe every sound that you hear. And we are going to listen to the file twice. Okay, so I'm going to click on this icon. I wanted to ask, ask you, if you would like to, to go to the cinema with me like to tomorrow night. I wanted to ask, ask you, if you would like to, to go to the cinema with me like to tomorrow night. Okay, so this is how the file should be transcribed as full verbatim. So I'm going to play it again. And then you can read along to this. I wanted to ask, ask you, if you would like to, to go to the cinema with me like to tomorrow night. So you can see that when we're transcribing full verbatim, many transcription companies will prefer you to use a lot of commas. So instead of just writing I wanted to ask, you know, you separate it almost like it's a pause, I wanted to ask you, okay, so we use a lot of commas. Again, this might change depending on the transcription company. And usually all you have to do is look at a sample transcript of the company that you're working for. For example, if you're working for transcribe me, they have a sample verbatim or full verbatim transcript, and you would follow what they do. So if you see them using commas between and so forth, then you would just follow that. Okay, so again, at the end of this video, we will go over a few different samples of different company transcription guidelines for clean and full verbatim. Okay, so now we're going to transcribe the same audio file in clean verbatim. So I want you to listen to the file again, and transcribe the file using the clean verbatim guidelines that we discussed earlier. So removing all extra sounds and repeated words that don't add any meaning to the file. Okay. I wanted to ask, ask you if you would like to, to go to the cinema with me like to tomorrow night. Okay, so this is how the file should be transcribed as clean verbatim. I wanted to ask you if you would like to go to the cinema with me tomorrow night. Now some people might say, well, why isn't there a question mark here? Well, this is an indirect question. It's not if I said, Would you like to go to the cinema with me tomorrow night? I would put a question mark, but this is indirect. So it ends with a full stop or a period. Okay. So again, you can see here, we've removed all the ums and as all the extra words, all the stutters, repeated words that weren't relevant. And it's a nice clean file that we've produced. And this is usually what we will have to do in most cases, when we're transcribing for different companies, unless they specify that they want verbatim or full verbatim or strict verbatim. Okay, so first, I want to show you rev.com has their own little resource on verbatim transcription. Again, if we scroll down here, they've got two different examples of non verbatim, and also as verbatim here. So non verbatim, I think we should go to the movies tonight because of the discount verbatim. And so I guess dot dot, I think we should go to the the movies tonight because of the discount laughs. Okay. So you can see in the non verbatim, they've taken out laughs, they've taken out all the ums, you know, words that weren't important. Okay. So with rev, it does depend, for example, in their captioning, they do want you to include everything that you hear, but they don't want you to include um, uh, uh-huh, things like that. But they don't want you to include stutters and words like and so again, you're going to have to go through the style guide individually. For each of these companies. I'm also going to link you in the description below. And in the little card that just popped up if you want to view all the different style guides for all the different transcription companies that I have been talking about here, I'm going to link you to that video. So you will have access to be able to view all the different transcription guidelines. So for example, here, this is the rev captioning style guide, they want you to omit or remove unnecessary filler words, false starts, stutters or repetitions. Okay, now let's look at the crowdsurf guide. Now crowdsurf, they also do clean verbatim transcription. So everything that we've been talking about just now, they want you to remove ums, ah, ah, eh, hmm, you know, like stutters, stammers, and all of these different things. So they give you some examples here. And that will help you as well. So they have switched to clean verbatim, they used to do full verbatim, but now they've switched. Now we'll look at transcribe me, transcribe me in general is only clean verbatim, that is their standard. So again, they have a very large, you know, 39 page style guide that you can follow of all the different things that you have to do. But essentially, it's the same as what we've been discussing in this video, removing stutters and stammers, removing repeated sounds. And then earlier, we were discussing false starts. An example they have here of a false start, I went to the mall, the store, and I bought some milk there. Well, that's a false start, because they didn't mean to say the mall, they meant to say the store. So we would correct it, I went to the store, and I bought some milk there. Okay, so they have their own guide. But again, it's just cleaning up the audio so it makes more sense. So it sounds more natural, but not changing anything that the person has said just removing things that aren't necessary. And then also transcribe me does have verbatim work as well, which they would specify if you have to do something that's verbatim. And here, this is a sample of a verbatim transcript. So you can see here, before we get into this new service, first draft, can you tell us about the services? Okay, for example, down here, all right, chuckles and so the Okay, so you can see how they have decided they're using hyphens here, when they're not finishing a word, but starting a word. So again, every company has their own guidelines of how they'd like to do this. And that is something you need to keep in mind and be looking at when you are transcribing. Finally, we'll go to Scriby. And as you can see here, usually Scriby is non strict verbatim by default. So usually it's clean verbatim. But there are certain instances where you will see a strict verbatim file. And certain people have said to me that their test files have strict verbatim. So you can see here on their transcription guide here that they want you to remove fillers like right, you know, I think like I mean, so actually, basically, unless it's necessary, and that's for their normal, clean, verbatim files that they want. But if you have a strict verbatim file that you're doing, you would include those. Also, utterances should be omitted for non strict verbatim files unless necessary. For strict verbatim files, only the following utterances should be transcribed. Uh huh. And okay, so in this scenario, for Scriby strict verbatim files, these are the only utterances that they want you to include. So they wouldn't want you to include a for example, or a. Okay, so that is in a nutshell, the difference between clean and full verbatim. I hope that this helps you clarify a bit what the difference is, and also all the different names for them. Because when I was first learning all about transcription and transcribing, it was a little confusing to learn the difference because it's not like they just call them clean versus full verbatim. For example, with Scriby, we've just seen that they call it strict verbatim, and a non strict verbatim. So you kind of have to know the difference between the two. But all of the companies in general follow a very similar rules and guidelines for when you're transcribing both clean and full verbatim. So I hope that this has helped you. Let me know how you did in the practice. And if you have any questions, you can put them in the comments below. If you enjoyed this video, please click like it really does support me and make sure to subscribe to my channel for more transcription tips and more different videos on how to make money online. Thank you once again for watching and I will see you in my next video.