If I were to get interviewed, I would definitely ask the researcher to remove all the ‘ers’ and ‘uhms’ from the transcript. There is no right way of transcribing interviews or other types of recordings for research in the social sciences. The bigger disruptor is the ability to annotate video and audio files. Furthermore, how can you be sure that your person-identifiable interview data is not going to be listened to and transcribed by someone who wasn’t on your consent forms. Tl dr: Transcribing is a pain, recent progress in speech recognition software has helped, but it is still a challenge. In this post Daniela Duca explores how the automation of transcription has become standard practice in other industries, such as news media, and considers what this might mean for approaches to analysing and interpreting qualitative data. The transcription of verbal and non-verbal social interactions is a central feature of social research and remains one of the most labour intensive and time consuming parts of many research projects.
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