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Creating Profiles: Transcribing
Cornell University, Cornell University, Creating Profiles project guide, n.d.
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- What it is
- A university project guide for interviewers on transcribing recorded interviews by hand, with a planning estimate of how long the typing takes and advice on using a foot pedal to start and stop playback.
- How much weight it carries
- A university teaching guide, not a study. It gives a practical planning rule for manual typing from a recording, based on the project's experience, and does not say how it was measured. Speed depends on the typist and the audio.
Facts taken from this source
- A Cornell interview project guide tells interviewers to expect to spend 4 to 6 hours transcribing each hour of recorded interview by hand.
“Expect to spend 4-6 hours transcribing per hour of recorded interview.” (Transcribing section)