Guides

A step-by-step guide to transcribing thesis interviews: set your rules early, choose verbatim or clean verbatim and avoid common mistakes.

Verbatim vs. clean verbatim with examples, how to mark pauses, overlaps and inaudible passages and a rules template for your interviews.

Learn how to anonymize interview transcripts for your thesis or research: what to replace, how to use placeholders and what to check first.

What SRT and VTT subtitle files are, when you need them and how to turn an interview recording into a subtitle file, plus common format errors.

How long manual transcription of a one-hour interview takes, what affects the time and how to plan transcription for your thesis.

How to analyze interviews for your thesis: code key passages, collect quotes and compare what participants said across all your transcripts.

Set up a sheet, code passages, then count and compare. Plus the limits of this method.

What to say about transcription in your thesis methods section: rules, software, checking and data protection, with a sample paragraph you can adapt.