It is very evident early on that any transcription will be produced by virtue of serious exclusions and distortions. An early question I am having is to what degree to intervene in the transcription, in order to produce something coherent and readable.
If the transcription cannot be produced accurately by software from audio recordings, then discriminating strategies of transcription must be developed in a human agent.
In this scenario it is readily admitted that the transcription will be partial. The rule is as follows: the time of the transcription is equal to the time of the transcribed. That is, the transcription can only take place within the time of the speech.
Within this constraint, how does the scribal agent operate? What further rules constrain his transcription? In this picture, is he a machine or does he function more as an antenna?