How to clean a meeting transcript while preserving the record
Transcript cleanup makes a conversation easier to read without changing what participants meant. It is useful before summarization, quoting or creating a document from a rough transcript.
Start with the right material.
- What you provide
- user-provided transcript text displayed on a webpage.
- The intended result
- Improve punctuation and speaker formatting while preserving statements and uncertainty.
How the workflow works.
Remove obvious repetition and repair formatting while preserving speaker turns and meaningful uncertainty. Keep uncertain words marked when the source does not justify a confident correction.
What to check in the result.
Check names, numbers, negation and commitments carefully. A cleaner sentence must not become a different statement, and unclear audio cannot be resolved reliably from text alone.
Read the text as an editable result and check it against the source. Keep important references, names and conditions intact when you copy it into another document or message.
Learn from the worked example.
Use the downloadable example to understand the shape of the result. Compare it with the source example, then apply the same factual checks to the material you provide for your own task.
The supplied example is illustrative. It is not a recorded run on your data.
Download the example ↓Use it with your own material.
- Open the source you want to work with and activate WebAct on that tab.
- Copy the task from the hero, add any required fields or preferences, and review the proposed actions.
- Compare the first result with your source. Ask for a specific correction or refinement where needed.