In the context of a test to become a transcriber for Amberscript, the document likely contains sample transcription tasks along with their corresponding answers. These tasks are designed to assess the applicant's transcription skills, including accuracy, formatting, and adherence to guidelines.
1. Which statements are true regarding Full Verbatim and Clean Read
Transcriptions?
In a Clean Read AND Full Verbatim transcription you use the [inaudible
00:00:00 - 00:00:00] tag when the audio if impossible to understand after
listening three times at a high volume and lower speed (0.7).
A Full Verbatim transcription includes everything exactly as it sounds and
includes all the utterances of the speakers.
In a Clean Read transcription you do not remove filler words if they change the
meaning of the phrase.
2. How does one transcribe uh/uhm/eh/ehm in a Full Verbatim
Transcription?
All options are wrong. Leave blank
3. How should you transcribe the following sentence in Clean Read:
"And then, I was like, uh, you know, I was like do it yourself! I, I don't
have time, you know.
And then I thought: “Do it yourself, I do not have time."
4. How does one transcribe a silence/pause longer than 3 seconds?
[silence 00:15:10 - 00:16:35]
[silence]
5. How do you show that a sentence is incomplete?
, --
6. Which sentence is correct?
As an engineer, I am in frequent contact with Gerald Manson, the vice
president of General motors.
7. How should you transcribe hours?
1:00 PM, 10:00 AM, six o’clock, eleven o’clock
8. Which statements are true regarding transcribing numbers?
Figures that exceed a million or billion are written as 35 billion
For large figures you use a comma: 98,898,374 dollars
The number 10 and above are written in digits: 10, 11, 12, etc.
9. Choose the verb form that best completes the sentence:
"I went to visit my friend and held baby very carefully because she was just
born."
10. Choose the verb form that best completes the sentence:
During the 19th century, Charles Dickens was one of the most famous British
novelists.
11. Choose the word that best fits the sentence:
I must admit that is not my first choice!
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