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Making Audio Accessible:: Teaching Transcription As Composition

The document discusses the process and considerations of transcribing audio works into written transcripts. It addresses defining transcription, the ethics of transcribing one's own work versus others, inclusion and exclusion of details, and using techniques like layout, fonts and notation to represent elements of the audio like speaker identification, tone of voice, sound effects, and dialogue. Examples are provided of transcripts from podcasts and diaries that demonstrate different approaches and how the genre of the original audio impacts the written transcript. Readers are prompted to reflect on the relationship between the audio and its transcript.

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Making Audio Accessible:: Teaching Transcription As Composition

The document discusses the process and considerations of transcribing audio works into written transcripts. It addresses defining transcription, the ethics of transcribing one's own work versus others, inclusion and exclusion of details, and using techniques like layout, fonts and notation to represent elements of the audio like speaker identification, tone of voice, sound effects, and dialogue. Examples are provided of transcripts from podcasts and diaries that demonstrate different approaches and how the genre of the original audio impacts the written transcript. Readers are prompted to reflect on the relationship between the audio and its transcript.

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MAKING AUDIO

ACCESSIBLE:
TEACHING TRANSCRIPTION AS
COMPOSITION
NAVIGATING THE SOUNDSCAPE
TRANSCRIBING FOR PUBLIC ATION
DEFINITION AND ROLES OF TRANSCRIPTION
ETHICS OF TRANSCRIPTION

TRANSCRIBING YOUR TRANSCRIBING THE


OWN WORK WORK OF OTHERS

Opportunity to Obligation and/or deference


recompose to original composer

Rhetorical choices Rhetorical choices reflect


reflect original intent interpretation of original
work
Additional
considerations of Transcript composer may
audience and context have entirely different
rhetorical situation to
consider
DANAH HASHEM, A WEEK
IN MARC H

ANNE
MOONEY,
CL AIMED
EXPERIENCE:
OWNING THE
PAS T
KATE ARTZ, THE
CONVERSATION
WHAT TO SAY VS. WHAT NOT TO SAY
INCLUSION AND EXCLUSION AS RHETORIC AL C HOICES

What information is essential to provide to your audience?

What information is non-essential?

What do you want the audience to interpret or contribute


themselves?
EXAMPLE ONE
INS TRUCTIONS FOR THE READER
EXAMPLE TWO
SPEAKER IDENTIFIC ATION

Danahs style of
speaker ID

Annes style of
speaker ID
EXAMPLE TWO: CONTINUED
OMITTING SPEAKER IDENTIFIC ATION

Speaker is unidentified

Speaker identity is
meant to be inferred
by listener/reader

Speaker identity is
deemed insignificant

Speaker is
intentionally
anonymous
EXAMPLE THREE
SPEAKERS TONE OF VOICE

adverbs & adjectives


verbs & phrasal
descriptions
EXAMPLE THREE: CONTINUED
SPEAKERS TONE OF VOICE

description of emphasis rhetorical implications


description of sound of sound
quality composers intention
EXAMPLE FOUR
SOUND EFFECTS
EXAMPLE FIVE
DIALOGUE DETAILS
VISUAL RHETORIC
Graphic weight

Spatial layout

Relative positions

Font use

Italics, Parenthesis, Brackets

Representation of silence: different in print vs audio


DANAHS
TRANSCRIPT

A WEEK
IN
MARCH
KATES TRANSCRIPT

THE CONVERSATION
ANNES
TRANSCRIPT

CLAIMED
EXPERIENCE:
OWNING
THE PAST
GENRE
In what ways does genre impact your choices regarding visual
rhetoric?

How does the audio compositions genre impact the written


transcript?

What existing written genres can be drawn on to shape and


inform the written transcript?
DRAMA
S TAGE DIRECTION
DRAMA
S TAGE DIRECTION
JOURNAL OR
DIARY

A WEEK
IN
MARCH
JOURNAL OR
DIARY
CLAIMED
EXPERIENCE:
OWNING
THE PAST
TRANSCRIPT
ACTIVITY
TRANSCRIPT VERSUS AUDIO

Was there anything in the audio file that you did not expect or that was
distinctly different from the way you imagined it?

In what ways did the audio file meet your expectations based on what
you read in the transcript?

Is there anything that the transcript did visually that you found either
misleading or extremely helpful in understanding the audio file?

Graphic weight; Spatial layout; Relative position; Font use; Italics,


Parenthesis, Brackets

Representation of silence: different in print vs. audio

What do you think the rhetorical goal of the transcript was?

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