What is clean read transcription?

Clean read or intelligent verbatim transcription focuses on typing out the essence of what’s being said on a recording rather than the absolute and exact words. This means that the transcript is edited to remove any fillers (ums, ahs, you knows, etc.), false starts, repeated words, side conversations, interruptions, and other speech/sounds irrelevant to the transcript. For e.g.,

Original transcript- “The idea you know is to take…is to place your umm.. business er…right at the…where your customers can you know see it”

Clean read transcript – “The idea is to place your business where your customers can see it”

The main idea is to create an easy-to-read, intelligent transcript that captures everything that’s important and leaves out the parts that are not relevant.

Clean read transcription is ideal for teleclasses, lectures, presentations, non-research interviews, podcasts, and conferences. It’s perfect for creating content that’s can be published as it is.

Tell your transcriptionist that you’re looking for a ‘clean’ transcript at the beginning of a project. The transcriptionist will then clean out the transcript as much as possible right in the first round of typing and will then take it through another round of editing to create an easy flowing, intelligent transcript of your audio/video.

Refer to Verbatim Transcription to learn about transcripts that document everything that’s recorded.