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Note: this is the global style guide for verbatim transcription. If you’re looking for the style guide for non-verbatim, please go here:

Global Style Guide - Non-Verbatim

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Language style-guides: French, German, Spanish, Portuguese, Hindi.

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What is verbatim transcription?

In verbatim transcription, the goal is to capture everything that you hear, exactly as you hear it, meaning:

• All detailed verbal elements: stutters, repetitions, etc
• All non-verbal elements like human sounds ([cough]) and environmental sounds ([dog barking])

Please see the following sections below for more details on how to create verbatim transcripts.

Speech

Non-Verbals

Speaker allocation

Timecodes

Numbers

Paragraph segmentation for long monologues