File> Special Audio Processes>>Background Noise Reduction, Extra Volume Boost, High Pass Filter We often recommend Special Audio Processes in Express Scribe to tweak things a bit.  The High Pass Filter can be of great help,[…]

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In transcription [Simultaneous discussion] is used when a number of people are speaking once in the conversation and you can’t understand the conversation. A single line break is placed above and below it. Parenthesis is[…]

Use Google to look up unknown words. If the word cannot be found a [sp?] will be inserted immediately following the word we are unsure[sp?] of. (sp?) if used in captioning.

Web site is two words and Web is always capped. I went to his Web site.

I looked up this information on the Internet.

When a speaker is interrupted by another speaker, we represent this with two dashes.  When the speaker resumes, or doesn’t pause because of the interruption, we continue the sentence with two dashes.

If the current speaker trails off or is cut off by another speaker we represent this with either . . .  or –-. . . . (space, period, space, period, space, period) is used when[…]

Is used in broadcast transcription when there is a break in the interview for technical reasons. A single line break is placed above and below it.

Alot isn’t a word. A lot, is two words.