So Now I Understand Why Transcription is Expensive
I tried to have my outsourced PA service transcribe the first of our new-style formal board meetings… It’s not looking particularly promising. The best bits are:
You have no executive directors in the use of the sounding boards for your (illegible) sister in laws.
So there’s not anything that you should have surprises as much as you shouldn’t come unprepared on your own stuff and make it up. You should worry about anyone else’s surprises and you can have comments you’ll have to make it up.
Actually, that last paragraph sounds exactly like something Duncan might say…
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Dr. Pete on Fri (27 Feb) @ 6:42 pm
I tried to help a friend recently transcribe some interviews for her Ph.D., mostly with Asian students. I’m a decent typist and pretty good with accents, but a 1-hour transcript took me about 6 hours, and that still had a dozen [illegible] sections, etc. It’s not easy.
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hannah_bo_banna on Tue (3 Mar) @ 3:54 pm
Ha! Genius.
Just out of interest – is it really necessary to transcribe the entire meeting?
Being a female in a spectacularly sexist organisation (NB not my current employers) I spent an inordinate amount of time being in charge of the minutes for meetings.
Rather than creating ‘proper’ minutes with a transcript of all discussions, I would only note down agreements and actions. Makes for a much more digestable, and actionable record of the meeting; and well, life’s just too short, right?
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Will Critchlow on Wed (4 Mar) @ 3:12 pm
Yeah – I now see how hard it is… I was hoping we could keep a transcript in plain text alongside proper minutes in order to be able to grep old board meetings for “that meeting where, you know – we talked about whether we can have pets in the office” (or whatever) – essentially a searchable archive.
It wasn’t to be. Just minutes of actions etc. it is…