interview transcripts
Typed dialogue records
Interview transcripts are written records of spoken interviews, capturing the questions asked and answers given.
They may be verbatim—including every pause, repetition, and filler word—or edited for clarity.
Researchers use them to analyze qualitative data; journalists use them to verify quotes; legal proceedings rely on them as evidence.
The interview transcripts revealed inconsistencies in his story.
- verbatimIn identical wording
- direct quoteExact reproduction of speech
- quotesRepeated words, verbatim
- primary sourceUnmediated evidence from events
- recordingCaptured audio or video
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