What Is (Or is Not) a Group Conversation?

As a SpeakWrite typist, you are already familiar with identifying whether a job is a GC or not. Remember, the most important guidelines are as follows:

To be considered a GC, there must be interaction between two or more voices.
Examples include: interviews, phone conversations, presentations where speakers continually interact, meetings among multiple people, etc.
A regular job (letter, memo, case notes, etc.) turns into a GC when there is a second voice and there are at least 10 seconds of interaction between the two voices.

Group Conversation Warning

Just because there is more than one voice in a job doesn’t automatically make it a GC.

Examples of jobs with multiple speakers that are not GCs include:

Voice mail messages (even if there are multiple messages in one audio).
Sermons, lectures, webinars, podcasts and other recordings where one or more voices are present but do not interact. (Please note, if the speakers in jobs like this interact, it may become a GC. Open a Help Ticket to determine whether to handle it as a GC or not.)
Seminars or presentations with multiple speakers where there is no interaction between the speakers.
A regular job (letter, memo, case notes, etc.) where a second person interjects for less than 10 seconds.
Jobs with recorded voices or radio chatter which the speaker doesn't interact with.

Help Ticket

A Help Ticket must be opened if you have any doubt whether a job is a Group Conversation or not. Do not transcribe anything while waiting for the Help Desk to respond, unless you are a PR or a designated GC typist. If the job is determined to be a GC, you will have to delete everything you’ve typed since the point the job became a GC.

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