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5hours per hour of interview
Kvale and Brinkmann estimated that manual transcription takes five hours for each hour of interview, a figure Wollin-Giering and colleagues cite in 2024.
Checked against its source on October 17, 2026
In the source's own words
“KVALE and BRINKMANN estimated five hours per hour of interview”
Automatic Transcription of English and German Qualitative Interviews, Susanne Wollin-Giering et al., Forum: Qualitative Social Research, 25(1), Art. 8, 2024, Section 5.3, Time spent.
Open the original- What it measures
- A methods textbook estimate, cited second-hand in the 2024 article as one of two earlier figures for manual transcription.
- What it does not show
- An estimate, not a timed study. It is cited here second-hand and sits close to the six-hour figure from the same review.