![]() ![]() However I would strongly recommend stopping anyway halfway through to make sure that the recording is clear enough to be transcribed. It can be worth stopping after a couple of minutes and rewinding slightly just to make sure that the recording sounds clear when you play it back. Check the device halfway through your recording to make sure it is picking up well. ![]() Explain and introduce everything first, and only once all of this is done and the focus group is going to start, press record on the device. This will save you a bit of money and it can be amazing how many minutes at the start of the recording can be spent not talking about the things you want transcribing. Start the recording at the point you want the transcriber to begin typing.Tell them not to speak over the top of each other. Explain that the transcriber will not want to be typing lots of hesitations and erm’s, so to keep their answers as specific as possible. Tell them to try to speak clearly and concisely. Speak to the participants of the focus group at the start of the recording and ensure that you have firstly obtained their permission to record the group, but also explain to them that a transcriber is going to be typing out everything they say.It is not as easy to work with the audio files on smart phones as it is on a digital recorder, but they do work well at picking up sounds and recording the focus group accurately. Similarly the Apple iPhones are absolutely amazing and will work extremely well for focus groups if placed flat in the middle of the room (other smart phones are available). You can pick up a reasonably priced Olympus digital dictation machine on eBay for around £40 to £60. We recommend the Olympus products for digital recording because they are inexpensive and the digital files are easy to manipulate. The recording device should be of fairly good quality.Try to seat everybody in a circle with the recording device in the middle, pointing at no-one in particular. A common problem for transcribers is that one person will be very clear and others will not because the recording device has been placed next to them. Do not put the recorder close to one person and not any of the others if everybody is expected to speak equally, or contribute regularly to the recording. ![]() A large hall with six people in and no sound proofing is going to be very echoey and make it hard for the transcriber to pick up the spoken word clearly. It is particularly relevant in a room that does not have any acoustic padding or dampening, for example a dining hall or restaurant space.
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