What constitutes a line of transcription?
Each line, by AAMT standards, consists of 65 characters (or keystrokes) where a character is defined as any letter, number, or symbol necessary for the final appearance and content of a document, including the space bar. Advanced software totals all characters used in a particular file and calculates the number of lines for that document.
A. We count a 65-character line where a character is defined as any letter, number or symbol necessary for the final appearance and content of a document, including the space bar. To fully understand this, take a transcribed document and open it in Word 97 or greater. Go to Tools, select Word Count and note the value shown next to “Characters (with spaces)” and divide this by 65. Q.
