Reduct Transcription Guidelines - False sentence starts
- False sentence starts
False starts are occurrences where the audio starts from the middle of the sentence. The orders that we receive are broken down into 5-minute chunks. So an hour-long order gets broken into 12 pieces of 5-minute chunks. Sometimes this break happens not at the end of the sentence but in the middle, leading to a false start.
Example
The actual sentence: He wanted to learn how to skate in harsh terrains.
The sentence with a false start:
00:00: to learn how to skate in harsh terrain.
Notice how the sentence starts with a small ‘t’ and not a capital ‘T’. This indicates that the sentence is a continuation of the previous chunk making it a false start.
