October
2007
Conferences - Transcription of Recordings
If you’re planning a conference some careful thought needs to go into your post-conference pack. Usually with academic conferences the speakers will submit full papers relating to their talks, so there is no need to have the conference recorded and transcribed, because the conference proceedings can be put together from these. However, this is rarely the case for other conferences such as business-related or political meetings. In such cases the speakers are often recorded for later transcription, but there are a number of things a conference organiser needs to consider when seeking to get the recordings transcribed. These include getting decent recording equipment in the first place, making sure that if you’re going to have a panel session all the panel have microphones AND you have a roving mike in the audience, and, assuming you want the delegates asking the questions to be identified in the transcript, providing your transcriptionist with a delegate list, not just a speaker list. For other things that should be considered please see my article on conference transcription