You have just received a Claudio Ontario ACT Transcript, and are not sure how to start editing it? This article is meant to help you so that using them will become a piece of cake
NOTE: To learn more about Macros in MS Word, you can check out this article.
If you have chosen an ACT Court Transcript Profile when submitting a job through Claudio, you can expect to receive a non-speaker-identified transcript with embedded hotkeys for common notations such as speaker labels, exhibits, witness oaths, and breaks.
These hotkeys are listed just above the transcript itself and are highlighted in yellow. While editing the transcript, you will use these hotkeys to denote different events throughout the proceeding.
The hotkeys are connected to predefined macros meant so that when you press certain keys, such as Alt+4, they would insert certain text like, "RESPONDINGLAWYER". They are already in place and formatted.
Something to note is that there are a different set of macros depending on where the audio file was sent from. The one used in the video provided in this article are the ones used in Ontario.
Below is a video and transcript of the video for additional help, showing examples as well:
TRANSCRIPT
This video is going to show you how to use your macros once you receive your transcript, which has your speech-2-text already inputted into it and your cover page is complete. With that, you will also receive a little notepad with the macros that we have already put in place.
So, it shows you which keys go into which speaker labels. So, if you press Alt+1 it would begin your Q&A for you. You would input whatever the question is, and then you would input the answer with Alt+4. Alt+2 goes from colloquy into Q&A. Alt+3, colloquy to the questioning lawyer. The questioning lawyer would usually be the first appearance on your cover page, and then the responding lawyer would be the third -- sorry, the second appearance. The TP Lawyer, the third party lawyer, would be the third appearance. There's a court reporter, the witness who's getting examined, cross-examined, and re-examined. There's interpreter if that’s the case, if your transcript has an interpreter. Witness without interpreter, again, if your transcript has an interpreter. The court, which would be the judge. And unidentified speaker from the body of the court. Indiscernible. We have rulings, reasons for judgment, reasons for sentence, and then it would begin a new line under it. You would input the judge's name here. We have examination-in-chief, cross-examination, re-examination. And then the questioning lawyer, the responding lawyer, you would just input the first appearance and the second appearance. We have objections and submissions. We have exhibits. So, you would enter your number and the description of the exhibit. And recess. So, for example, majority of the cases usually start with the judge. So, you would press Alt+C, and that would enter in the court hotkey. Say the first person appearing, so the counsel for the plaintiff speaks, you would press Alt+4, I believe it is. No, Alt+3. That would bring up the questioning lawyer. So, you usually would just go back and forth between, you know, the court, the questioning lawyer. Sometimes, you know, the responding lawyer will butt in if they need to. Q&A starts, press Alt+1. And the typing, everything is already formatted for you as well. And I believe Alt+5 is the -- Alt+4 is the answer. Say we go back into colloquy. The questioning lawyer speaks, and then the court speaks, and then you wanna go back into Q&A, you would press Alt+2, which goes from colloquy into the Q&A. Let's say, for example, the judge wants to begin his ruling. You would press Alt+R+R, it would format your ruling for you. So, for the judge, you would input his name. Yeah. And then start typing his ruling. So, that is the simplest way to explain how to use the macros. The more you do it, the more you'll get used to which keys are for which speaker labels as well.