Quality discipline: treat ASR as a first draft | DATASPHERES AI - Dataspheres AI

Production lessons that save studies: Triage every transcript - skim the first lines; garbled output usually means a missing language hint. Re-transcribe...

Production lessons that save studies: Triage every transcript - skim the first lines; garbled output usually means a missing language hint. Re-transcribe with force rather than coding noise. Speaker labels are drafts - diarization can merge voices in lively focus groups; the researcher who ran the session confirms labels. Translate, keep the original - store English translations beside originals; quote participants in their language, gloss in yours. Sample triage table (one row per recording): id · site · language · status · chars · first-150-chars. Ten minutes with this table catches every bad transcript before it contaminates coding.