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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:

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

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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
If requested, the most prominent non-verbal elements like human sounds ([cough]) and environmental sounds ([dog barking]). Avoid overusing non-verbal elements. Human sounds are attributed to the speaker who made them; environmental and group sounds go under the reserved Background label (see Section 15).

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

Speech