Please check your transcripts against these guidelines below to make it as easy for him as possible.
Formatting guide lines:
Formatting's the biggest time-waster, because someone else takes the time to format something "wrong," and then I erase all that and redo it. This's why it'd be most time-efficient, I think, to have one guy do it all, but it's also reasonable to make it a team-effort for the huge backlog.
*TRANSCRIBE THE ADS!
*If you're new, please check finished transcripts for an idea on preferred style and formatting.
*"Bitcoin" is often not a proper noun, and "bitcoins" almost never is. If you're talking about Bitcoin, it is, but if you're talking about a bitcoin or bitcoins, it isn't.
*Start the transcript with a list of participants. For example,
*It would be preferable for you to take the time to look up proper names instead of having me do it. You can usually just type the whatever's name into Google followed by "bitcoin." Google will often either confirm your guess or give you the correct spelling if you aren't way off.
*"Find-and-replace" is often being misused. Please think about all the words or names it may be replacing before using it. After using it, do a "find" on the replaced word to make sure you haven't unintentionally changed a bunch of words throughout the transcript.
*If you add timestamps (which is awesome), please only add a timestamp after a speaker has fully finished speaking and it goes on to a new speaker. Please also have the timestamp be accurate for where it is in the transcript, which should be exactly after the previous speaker FINISHED (not started) speaking.
*Ideally, upload your files to Scribd in .odt or .doc format (.odt preferred). Scribd does not provide the option to download files which were uploaded in .pdf as .odt unless the file was originally uploaded in one of those document containers.
*Please start sentences beginning with a conjunction with a hyphen. -So, this way, you aren't as tempted to create a 500-word run-on sentence. Ideally, just leave the conjunction out, but I understand it's hard to ignore words when transcribing.
*Please don't skip sections. You'll have to redo them, and it's a huge source of "fail points."
*"Fail points" is a rough measurement of how many errors were in the transcript. Ideally, a transcription should have less than 100 FP. An episode with more than 250 FP is considered really freakin' bad, and I charge qwk a little more for them.
Minor grammatical errors (missing punctuation which doesn't affect readability) – .5FP
Misspelling a proper name, without changing how it sounds – 1FP
Omitting/mistranscribing an unnecessary conjunction (or other "insignificant" word) – 1FP
Misspellings – 1FP
Significant formatting error – 2FP
Significant grammatical errors (affects readbility) – 2FP
Misspelling a proper name, changing how it sounds – 2FP
Omitting/mistranscribing a significant word (doesn't change meaning of sentence)- 2FP
Omitting/mistranscribing a significant word (changes meaning of sentence) – 5FP
Omitting a sentence – 10FP
Omitting a paragraph or more (not fixed - transcriber must retranscribe!) – 25FP
*TRANSCRIBE THE ADS!
*If you're new, please check finished transcripts for an idea on preferred style and formatting.
*"Bitcoin" is often not a proper noun, and "bitcoins" almost never is. If you're talking about Bitcoin, it is, but if you're talking about a bitcoin or bitcoins, it isn't.
*Start the transcript with a list of participants. For example,
Code:
Participants:
Adam B. Levine (AL) – Host
Andreas M. Antonopolous (AA) – Co-host
Stephany Murphy (SM) – Co-host
Asher Tan (AT) – Co-founder/CEO coinjar.io
Ryan Zhou (RZ, AKA “zhoutong”) – Co-founder/COO coinjar.io
*In the above formatting, note how they all have two-letter acronyms in parentheses. Use these two letters to show who is speaking (including the host). For example, SM: I received an email from a listener [blah blah blah]. Using their first name is also fine, so long as you are consistent. Feel free to introduce other styling or formatting changes so long as they increase readability and are consistent throughout the entire transcript.Adam B. Levine (AL) – Host
Andreas M. Antonopolous (AA) – Co-host
Stephany Murphy (SM) – Co-host
Asher Tan (AT) – Co-founder/CEO coinjar.io
Ryan Zhou (RZ, AKA “zhoutong”) – Co-founder/COO coinjar.io
*It would be preferable for you to take the time to look up proper names instead of having me do it. You can usually just type the whatever's name into Google followed by "bitcoin." Google will often either confirm your guess or give you the correct spelling if you aren't way off.
*"Find-and-replace" is often being misused. Please think about all the words or names it may be replacing before using it. After using it, do a "find" on the replaced word to make sure you haven't unintentionally changed a bunch of words throughout the transcript.
*If you add timestamps (which is awesome), please only add a timestamp after a speaker has fully finished speaking and it goes on to a new speaker. Please also have the timestamp be accurate for where it is in the transcript, which should be exactly after the previous speaker FINISHED (not started) speaking.
*Ideally, upload your files to Scribd in .odt or .doc format (.odt preferred). Scribd does not provide the option to download files which were uploaded in .pdf as .odt unless the file was originally uploaded in one of those document containers.
*Please start sentences beginning with a conjunction with a hyphen. -So, this way, you aren't as tempted to create a 500-word run-on sentence. Ideally, just leave the conjunction out, but I understand it's hard to ignore words when transcribing.
*Please don't skip sections. You'll have to redo them, and it's a huge source of "fail points."
*"Fail points" is a rough measurement of how many errors were in the transcript. Ideally, a transcription should have less than 100 FP. An episode with more than 250 FP is considered really freakin' bad, and I charge qwk a little more for them.
Minor grammatical errors (missing punctuation which doesn't affect readability) – .5FP
Misspelling a proper name, without changing how it sounds – 1FP
Omitting/mistranscribing an unnecessary conjunction (or other "insignificant" word) – 1FP
Misspellings – 1FP
Significant formatting error – 2FP
Significant grammatical errors (affects readbility) – 2FP
Misspelling a proper name, changing how it sounds – 2FP
Omitting/mistranscribing a significant word (doesn't change meaning of sentence)- 2FP
Omitting/mistranscribing a significant word (changes meaning of sentence) – 5FP
Omitting a sentence – 10FP
Omitting a paragraph or more (not fixed - transcriber must retranscribe!) – 25FP
