We use voice recognition to “prep” our audio files for transcription. We carefully edit for errors due to:
-Improper use and expectations of SRT’s capabilities.
-Disregard for standards of style, grammar and readability.
-Errors due to poor recording quality, idioms, slang, idiosyncratic speech.
Many of these errors are subtle and many are perplexing. Sometimes they make you laugh out loud! Here are a few!
VR: And I think by the time I was ten years old, my brother cut down a set of golf clubs for me that were all wooden, wooden shafted, wooden heads—I mean, not wooden heads, but wooden shafts. So he’d read Greek, gripped the handles of the–grips on the golf clubs. And that introduced me to golf.
REALITY: What he actually said was So he’d re-gripped the handles.
As far as I know, that doesn’t require a knowledge of Greek!
VR: He was Dion.
REALITY: He was dying.
Dion, I presume, was alive. But this guy was not.
VR: They did this from Raymond. They did it from from the gardenia.
REALITY: They did this from Bremen. They did it from Gdynia.
(Oh that Raymond and his gardenias!)
VR: We were talking to our kids.
REALITY: We were towing targets.
I know there are times when it might feel . . . so. . . tempting!
VR: That happened Raekwon . . .
REALITY: That happened right when . . .
Okay, Raekwon? Really?
VR: We had to getrillionreports . . .
REALITY: We had to you know, get reports . . .
I guess a WHOLE LOT of reports?
VR: No, I write books!
REALITY: No, I drive a bus.
Oh, God, I hope not simultaneously!
VR: Now, we’ve already done the gag and the garrote.
REALITY: Now, we’ve already done the gag (order) and the Garrity (warning)
Sadly, the listener didn’t live to sign anything!