Transcribe

How it is used

Interviews are usually transcribed verbatim (word for word), sometimes including pauses and laughter. The written text is a transcript and the process is transcription. Many researchers now use automatic transcription software and then check the output carefully.

Example sentences

1. All interviews were audio-recorded and transcribed verbatim.

2. It took me about five hours to transcribe each one-hour interview.

Common collocations

• transcribe verbatim
• interview transcript
• transcription software
• transcribed data

Related terms

• semi-structured interviewAn interview that follows a prepared list of questions but lets the researcher change the order and ask follow-up questions.
• codingIn qualitative research, the process of labeling parts of the data, such as sentences in interviews, with short codes that describe their meaning.
• thematic analysisA qualitative method for finding, organizing and interpreting patterns of meaning, called themes, across interviews, texts or other data.
• focus groupA guided group discussion in which a small number of participants talk about a topic so that researchers can study their shared and differing views.

More terms: Data and Analysis

• data
• findings
• analysis
• significant
• draw a conclusion
• correlation
• account for
• interpret
• dataset
• mean
• standard deviation
• descriptive statistics