Transcription basics

Transcription
Your task will be to transcribe short audios
You will listen to the audios and write down what you hear
You will also need to format transcriptions based on the Written Domain Conventions (transcription styleguide)

Transcription tool
There are several transcription tools, but the idea and the goal of the transcription task is same for all of them
You will get specific tool guidelines for each transcription platform
Written Domain Conventions (transcription styleguide) is common for all transcription tools

Transcribing
READ THE GUIDELINES BEFORE YOU START TRANSCRIBING
When transcribing, listen to the audio and write down what you hear (and only what you hear)
If you are not sure, listen couple of times.
If the audio is not clear (there is a background noise, the speech is not clear), do not transcribe the audio and rather skip it (Skip or Cannot transcribe, depending on the tool).
Usually, if you cannot understand the audio fully after 5 listenings, you can skip the audio.

Complete sentences and sentence fragments
Complete sentences need to start with a capital letter and end with a sentence punctuation.
Complete sentence has a subject and a verb.
Examples:
I will travel to London tomorrow.
What´s the weather like today?
Call John.

Complete sentences and sentence fragments
Sentence fragments should not start with a capital letter and should not have a final punctuation
Sentence fragments are incomplete sentences, they don´t have a subject and a verb
Examples:
funny movies
pictures of cats
If there is a proper noun in a sentence fragment, it should be capitalized
Examples:
good restaurants in Paris

Web search queries
Web search queries should not start with a capital letter and end with a punctuatuon. If they contains proper nouns, those should be capitalized
Examples:
pictures of cats
James Bond actors
Expressions ”how to (do) something” that don´t contain a finite state verb are also considered web search queries
Examples:
how to make a perfect pizza
how to get to Paris
Important: Note the difference with complete sentences:
how to make a perfect pizza – no subject and finite state verb > fragment
X
How do I make a perfect pizza? – subject and finite state verb > complete sentence

Look up in guidelines
Whenever there is something that might have specific styleguide requirements, check the guidelines:
Dates, time expressions, numbers, reported speech, truncations, commas, anything that might be ambiguous needs to be checked in the guidelines to make sure that the transcription is correctly formated.
Examples:
I will come at 5 o´clock. >> I will come at 5:00.
I have 5 sisters. >> I have five sisters.
It is 5 kilometres. >> It is 5 km.
OK Google >> Ok Google

Look up on web
Whenever you are not sure how to spell something (especially terms, names, media titles), look them up on web
Pay attention to correct capitalization of proper nouns and brand names
Examples:
Leonardo Dicaprio >> Leonardo DiCaprio
Pokemon Go >> Pokémon GO