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# Guidelines for short audio transcriptions in Korean

Welcome and thank you for your willingness to help with the task of transcribing short audio files!

Please, read these guidelines carefully before starting the work. If you have any additional questions, do not hesitate to ask me.

The following examples are for English. But the rules apply to the Korean language as well. 

## About the Google sheets file

You're provided with a link to the Google sheets where you can find the following columns: `file`, `text`, and `score`. 
- `file` contains the audio file name; 
- `text`  empty column for text;
- `score` empty column for scoring. More info about the scoring you'll find above.


## About transcription

Your task is write down into the `text` column what the speaker on audio says by the following rules:

1. Write down what you hear. For example, if the speaker says *'I go went to the hospital'* and the related cell in the `text` column contains *'I went to the hospital'*, you need to correct the text and add this extra *'go'*. The main idea is to write down what we hear, even if it's mispronounced or incorrect from the linguistic point of view.
 
2. Write down all the numbers that the speaker says as words, not numbers. For instance, *'8'* should be written down as *'eight'*, *'16'* as *'sixteen'*, and so on.

3. The punctuation signs are limited to four ones: `comma (,)`, `dot (.)`, `exclamation mark (!)`, and `question mark (?)`. If the speaker makes a long pause, please put a comma or a dot, even if this comma/dot contradicts the punctuation rule. Please, do **not** use any other punctuation signs, such as semicolons, three dots, dash, and others. 

4. Each piece of transcribed text (=one audio) should end with one of three punctuation signs: `dot`, `exclamation mark`, or `question mark.` Even if you feel like the sentence is intonationally not completed, please put a punctuation sign at the end of the text. 


## About scoring

For each audio file, you have to input the score from 1-5.

The score reflects the quality of the speech on audio. For instance, if the speaker speaks clearly and you can easily understand what they say, you may rate this as 5. If the speaker mumbles/whispers/speaks too fast/the background is louder than the speaker, and you can barely understand what they say, you may rate this as 2. 

Here's the cheat sheet about the grading system: 

![](https://i.imgur.com/kc8S5yU.png)


## Examples

Here are a few examples: 

 
<audio controls="controls" src="https://robotvera.ru/media/en_mrbeast_c8VcUnz3nVc_5299229.0_5311149.0.b765c7f9-7cf.short.mp3">
</audio>

- Text that should be written down: *"but at the same time, you're limited by personality like."*

<br>

<audio controls="controls" src="https://robotvera.ru/media/en_mrbeast_c8VcUnz3nVc_1324270.0_1335870.0.e1df3f00-05d.short.mp3">
</audio>

- Text that should be written down: *'made an entire year and she was like raising me and my, brother and sister and stuff like that.'*

<br>

<audio controls="controls" src="https://robotvera.ru/media/en_mrbeast_c8VcUnz3nVc_1199230.0_1211070.0.77ac9f27-a87.short.mp3">
</audio>

- Text that should be written down: *'you have to be, you have to work on multiple videos at a time, because most of our videos take months to produce.'*




 


