Transcript editing synced to audio
Correct transcripts against recordings with accurate speaker labels and timestamps.
20 project-authored proposals · taxonomy v1.1 · 0 new benchmark runs. Verifiers and partial-credit rules below are designs, not executed results.
- Typical applications
- Eclipse CAT · Case CATalyst · oTranscribe
- Class GUI-need label
G2· GUI-essential
Task proposals · 20
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R10.01.01.04-T01 Correct a five-minute interview transcript against its audio in oTranscribe
Original instruction
oTranscribe is open in the browser with input/interview_05min.mp3 (synthetic witness interview) and the ASR draft input/interview_draft.otr loaded. Correct the wording against the audio, keep the existing timestamps, label speakers 'INVESTIGATOR:' and 'WITNESS:', and export the result as output/interview_final.otr and output/interview_final.txt.
- Platforms
web· Any OS (web)- Applications
- oTranscribe
- Interfaces
brow· Browser- GUI need · task setting
G2· GUI-essential- GUI need · ordinary access
G2· GUI-essential- Interaction primitives
av· Audio/video over timetype· Text & formskey· Shortcuts- Work product
WP05· Time-based media- Conditions
- None declared
- Proposed difficulty
- 2 / 5
Proposed verifier
jiwer WER vs gold transcript <= 3% (draft starts at 11%); speaker label accuracy per turn >= 95%; the 22 original timestamps preserved within 0.2 s. The 12 seeded errors are audio-only (homophones, numbers), so text-only edits cannot reach the threshold. ASR engines are absent from the VM and outbound network is firewalled, so those errors can be fixed only by listening in oTranscribe.
Proposed partial credit
60% WER threshold (scaled); 25% speaker labels; 15% timestamps preserved.
R10.01.01.04-T02 Edit a 20-minute deposition draft to certified accuracy with audio sync
Original instruction
Case CATalyst job 'Marlow_Depo_0915' (synthetic) has a rough steno translation synced to input/marlow_audio.wav. Using the audio sync, fix untranslated steno, misstrokes and wrong words, make Q/A and colloquy formatting correct and keep the audio links intact. Save the job and export output/marlow.txt (ASCII, 25 lines per page).
- Platforms
win· Windows- Applications
- Case CATalyst
- Interfaces
desk· Desktop GUI- GUI need · task setting
G2· GUI-essential- GUI need · ordinary access
G3· GUI-only- Interaction primitives
av· Audio/video over timetype· Text & formskey· Shortcuts- Work product
WP05· Time-based media- Conditions
licensed· Licensed pro app- Proposed difficulty
- 3 / 5
Proposed verifier
ASCII export: WER vs gold <= 2%; Q/A/colloquy line-type accuracy >= 98%; page:line count within 1 page of gold; untranslates remaining = 0. ASR engines are absent from the VM, and the job file must retain audio-sync marks, which only Case CATalyst writes; an export not matching the saved job is detected and fails.
Proposed partial credit
50% WER; 25% Q/A formatting; 15% no untranslates; 10% audio sync intact.
R10.01.01.04-T03 Reassign speaker turns in a four-party hearing transcript
Original instruction
Descript project 'Zoning_Hearing_0822' contains a recorded hearing with 4 speakers (chair, applicant, counsel, resident) and an auto-transcript with wrong speaker labels and merged turns. Using the audio, split merged turns at the right points and assign each turn to the correct speaker from input/appearance_sheet.pdf. Export output/hearing_transcript.docx with timestamps.
- Platforms
mac· macOSwin· Windows- Applications
- Descript
- Interfaces
desk· Desktop GUI- GUI need · task setting
G2· GUI-essential- GUI need · ordinary access
G3· GUI-only- Interaction primitives
av· Audio/video over timeclick· Point & clicktype· Text & forms- Work product
WP05· Time-based media- Conditions
- None declared
- Proposed difficulty
- 3 / 5
Proposed verifier
Word-level speaker attribution accuracy >= 97% vs gold (aligned by word timing); turn boundaries within 0.5 s; text WER not worse than the draft. Speaker identities are only distinguishable by voice; names appear only on the appearance sheet. Diarization and ASR tools are not installed on the VM, and the docx must match the speaker assignments saved in the Descript project.
Proposed partial credit
60% speaker attribution; 30% turn splits; 10% export with timestamps.
R10.01.01.04-T04 Insert exhibit-marking parentheticals at the audio-confirmed points
Original instruction
Eclipse CAT job 'Chen_Depo_0903' (synthetic) with synced audio. input/exhibits.txt lists 9 exhibits with approximate times. Listen around each time and insert the parenthetical '(Exhibit N marked for identification.)' at the exact transcript line where marking occurs, using the job's parenthetical style, and build the exhibit index page.
- Platforms
win· Windows- Applications
- Eclipse CAT
- Interfaces
desk· Desktop GUI- GUI need · task setting
G2· GUI-essential- GUI need · ordinary access
G3· GUI-only- Interaction primitives
av· Audio/video over timenav· Pan/zoom/scrolltype· Text & forms- Work product
WP05· Time-based media- Conditions
licensed· Licensed pro app- Proposed difficulty
- 4 / 5
Proposed verifier
Export: 9 parentheticals with exact text, each placed within 1 line of the gold position (approximate times are off by up to 40 s); exhibit index lists page:line matching placements; no other text changes (diff outside parentheticals empty). ASR engines are absent from the VM, and the export must be generated by Eclipse from the saved job, whose audio-sync marks only the app writes.
Proposed partial credit
55% parenthetical placement; 25% index; 20% no collateral edits.
R10.01.01.04-T05 Timestamp every speaker change in an interview transcript
Original instruction
InqScribe document input/agency_interview.inqscr with the audio input/agency_interview.m4a and a plain transcript lacking timecodes. Insert a timecode at the start of every speaker turn (format [hh:mm:ss.ff]) aligned to when the speaker begins talking, then export output/agency_interview_timed.txt.
- Platforms
mac· macOSwin· Windows- Applications
- InqScribe
- Interfaces
desk· Desktop GUI- GUI need · task setting
G2· GUI-essential- GUI need · ordinary access
CL· CLI-sufficient- Interaction primitives
av· Audio/video over timekey· Shortcutstype· Text & forms- Work product
WP05· Time-based media- Conditions
- None declared
- Proposed difficulty
- 3 / 5
Proposed verifier
Parsed timecodes for 84 turns vs gold onsets: mean absolute error <= 0.5 s and 95% within 1.0 s; transcript text unchanged except timecodes. ASR and forced-alignment tools are not installed on the VM, so onsets must be set by listening in InqScribe; the export must match the saved .inqscr document.
Proposed partial credit
70% timecode accuracy; 20% all turns stamped; 10% text unchanged.
R10.01.01.04-T06 Produce a certified deposition transcript from a one-hour rough draft
Original instruction
Eclipse CAT job 'Okafor_Depo_1002' (60 min audio, synthetic) has a rough draft. Produce the certified transcript: corrected text, speaker and examination headers, Q/A and colloquy formatting per input/state_format_rules.pdf (25 lines, 1-inch margins), index of examinations and exhibits, reporter certificate, word index. Export PDF and ASCII to output/.
- Platforms
win· Windows- Applications
- Eclipse CAT
- Interfaces
desk· Desktop GUI- GUI need · task setting
G2· GUI-essential- GUI need · ordinary access
G3· GUI-only- Interaction primitives
av· Audio/video over timetype· Text & formskey· Shortcutsnav· Pan/zoom/scroll- Work product
WP05· Time-based media- Conditions
licensed· Licensed pro applong· Long-horizon- Proposed difficulty
- 5 / 5
Proposed verifier
ASCII: WER <= 2%, line-type accuracy >= 98%, 25 numbered lines/page; examination and exhibit indexes match gold page:line; certificate present with case caption; word index entries for the 30 gold terms. PDF text equals ASCII. ASR engines are not installed on the VM, and both exports must be generated by Eclipse from the saved job (audio-sync marks retained).
Proposed partial credit
45% text accuracy; 20% formatting rules; 20% indexes; 15% certificate and word index.
R10.01.01.04-T07 Resolve inaudible markers by listening to each spot
Original instruction
oTranscribe with input/call_0417.mp3 and input/call_0417.otr, which has 8 '[inaudible hh:mm:ss]' markers. Listen to each spot (slow playback allowed); replace the marker with the words where they can be made out, and keep '[inaudible]' where they cannot. Export output/call_0417_final.otr.
- Platforms
web· Any OS (web)- Applications
- oTranscribe
- Interfaces
brow· Browser- GUI need · task setting
G2· GUI-essential- GUI need · ordinary access
G2· GUI-essential- Interaction primitives
av· Audio/video over timetype· Text & forms- Work product
WP05· Time-based media- Conditions
- None declared
- Proposed difficulty
- 2 / 5
Proposed verifier
Gold: 5 resolvable spots with exact words, 3 truly masked by noise. Score: resolvable spots matched (word error <= 1 each); masked spots must stay '[inaudible]' (guessing counts as an error); rest of transcript unchanged. ASR engines are absent from the VM and outbound network is firewalled, so spots can be resolved only by listening in oTranscribe.
Proposed partial credit
60% resolvable spots; 30% masked spots left inaudible; 10% no collateral edits.
R10.01.01.04-T08 Fix drifting caption timing on a recorded hearing video
Original instruction
input/council_hearing.mp4 (32 min) has captions input/council_hearing.srt that start correct but drift 1.2 s late by the end, and one 40-second section after a recess break is offset by 6 s. In Subtitle Edit use the waveform and visual sync to correct timing so every cue starts within 150 ms of speech onset; keep cue text unchanged. Save output/council_hearing_fixed.srt.
- Platforms
win· Windows- Applications
- Subtitle Edit
- Interfaces
desk· Desktop GUI- GUI need · task setting
G2· GUI-essential- GUI need · ordinary access
CL· CLI-sufficient- Interaction primitives
av· Audio/video over timedrag· Drag & dropvis· Visual judgment- Work product
WP05· Time-based media- Conditions
- None declared
- Proposed difficulty
- 3 / 5
Proposed verifier
Cue start times vs gold: >= 95% within 150 ms, none off by > 500 ms; cue count and text unchanged; no overlapping cues. Linear shift alone fails the recess segment. Python and forced-alignment tools (ffsubsync, aeneas) are not installed on the VM, so timing must be fixed against the waveform in Subtitle Edit.
Proposed partial credit
50% global drift fixed; 35% recess segment fixed; 15% text and count unchanged.
R10.01.01.04-T09 Re-link transcript audio sync after the recording was trimmed
Original instruction
Case CATalyst job 'Ito_Depo_0828' was synced to the original audio. The reporter replaced it with input/ito_audio_trimmed.wav, which drops the first 37 s and a 2-minute off-record break at 00:41:10. Re-link the new audio so every line's sync point plays the right words, and confirm by spot-checking the 10 lines listed in input/spotcheck.txt.
- Platforms
win· Windows- Applications
- Case CATalyst
- Interfaces
desk· Desktop GUI- GUI need · task setting
G2· GUI-essential- GUI need · ordinary access
G3· GUI-only- Interaction primitives
av· Audio/video over timenav· Pan/zoom/scrollclick· Point & click- Work product
WP05· Time-based media- Conditions
licensed· Licensed pro apphidden· Hidden/stale state- Proposed difficulty
- 4 / 5
Proposed verifier
Job file sync table vs gold offsets: >= 98% of lines within 0.5 s, including lines after the removed break; the 10 spot-check lines within 0.3 s; text unchanged. The sync table is written only by Case CATalyst and the job format is undocumented, so hand-edited job files are detected by failing to open in the app.
Proposed partial credit
30% leading offset fixed; 50% post-break offset fixed; 20% spot-check lines.
R10.01.01.04-T10 Locate testimony by audio and cite page, line and time
Original instruction
Eclipse CAT job 'Chen_Depo_0903' with synced audio. The attorney needs the passage where the witness first discusses the March 3 surcharge invoice and the later passage where she corrects the amount. Find both, and write output/cites.txt with each passage's start and end page:line and audio timestamps.
- Platforms
win· Windows- Applications
- Eclipse CAT
- Interfaces
desk· Desktop GUI- GUI need · task setting
G2· GUI-essential- GUI need · ordinary access
G3· GUI-only- Interaction primitives
nav· Pan/zoom/scrollav· Audio/video over timetype· Text & forms- Work product
WP12· Answer/decision- Conditions
licensed· Licensed pro app- Proposed difficulty
- 3 / 5
Proposed verifier
cites.txt: both passages' page:line ranges within 1 line of gold and timestamps within 2 s. The correction is phrased without the keyword 'March' (seeded), so naive search misses it. ASR engines are not installed on the VM, and timestamps can be read only from Eclipse's audio sync.
Proposed partial credit
40% first passage; 40% correction passage; 20% timestamps.
R10.01.01.04-T11 Apply a witness errata sheet as appended corrections
Original instruction
Case CATalyst job 'Marlow_Depo_0915' (certified). The witness returned input/errata_signed.pdf with 7 changes. Per input/state_format_rules.pdf, do not alter the certified text; add an errata page listing page, line, change and reason, update the reporter's certificate addendum noting receipt of errata, and export output/marlow_with_errata.pdf.
- Platforms
win· Windows- Applications
- Case CATalyst
- Interfaces
desk· Desktop GUI- GUI need · task setting
G2· GUI-essential- GUI need · ordinary access
G3· GUI-only- Interaction primitives
type· Text & formsnav· Pan/zoom/scroll- Work product
WP01· Document- Conditions
licensed· Licensed pro app- Proposed difficulty
- 3 / 5
Proposed verifier
Certified body text byte-equal to the original export; errata page rows equal the 7 gold entries; addendum present with signature date; PDF page count = original + errata pages. PDF libraries are not installed on the VM, and the PDF must be exported by Case CATalyst from the saved job (errata page present in the job file).
Proposed partial credit
40% body untouched; 40% errata rows; 20% addendum.
R10.01.01.04-T12 Edit an interpreted deposition with bilingual segments
Original instruction
Eclipse CAT job 'Ruiz_Depo_0910' (synthetic, Spanish-speaking witness through an interpreter). Correct the English record against the audio, mark interpreter turns with 'THE INTERPRETER:', add '(Through the interpreter)' after the oath per input/style_guide.pdf, flag every untranslated Spanish response with a scopist note, and fix speaker labels where the witness answered in English directly.
- Platforms
win· Windows- Applications
- Eclipse CAT
- Interfaces
desk· Desktop GUI- GUI need · task setting
G2· GUI-essential- GUI need · ordinary access
G3· GUI-only- Interaction primitives
av· Audio/video over timetype· Text & formsnav· Pan/zoom/scroll- Work product
WP05· Time-based media- Conditions
licensed· Licensed pro applong· Long-horizon- Proposed difficulty
- 5 / 5
Proposed verifier
English WER <= 3%; speaker attribution (attorney/interpreter/witness) accuracy >= 97%; parenthetical placement per style guide; scopist notes on the 6 gold untranslated responses (F1 >= 0.9). ASR engines are absent from the VM, and notes must exist as Eclipse scopist notes in the saved job, which only the app writes.
Proposed partial credit
35% text accuracy; 35% speaker attribution; 15% parentheticals; 15% untranslated flags.
R10.01.01.04-T13 Segment an oral-argument recording by speaker in ELAN
Original instruction
ELAN with input/oral_argument.wav (18 min, 3 judges and 2 counsel, synthetic). Create a tier per speaker and annotate each speaking turn with start/end boundaries and the speaker's role, including interruptions where judges overlap counsel. Save output/oral_argument.eaf.
- Platforms
mac· macOSwin· Windowslin· Linux- Applications
- ELAN
- Interfaces
desk· Desktop GUI- GUI need · task setting
G2· GUI-essential- GUI need · ordinary access
CL· CLI-sufficient- Interaction primitives
av· Audio/video over timedrag· Drag & dropvis· Visual judgment- Work product
WP10· Annotations- Conditions
- None declared
- Proposed difficulty
- 3 / 5
Proposed verifier
EAF parsed: segment boundaries vs gold with boundary error <= 250 ms for >= 90% of turns; speaker-role assignment accuracy >= 95%; overlaps represented on separate tiers. Diarization and ASR tools are not installed on the VM, so turns must be segmented by listening in ELAN.
Proposed partial credit
50% boundaries; 35% speaker roles; 15% overlaps captured.
R10.01.01.04-T14 Transcribe a short voicemail exhibit verbatim with time marks
Original instruction
Using Express Scribe with foot-pedal hotkeys (or keyboard shortcuts) and Word, transcribe input/voicemail_ex14.wav (2 min) verbatim, including fillers and false starts, with a time mark every 30 s and the header block from input/transcript_header.docx. Save output/voicemail_ex14.docx.
- Platforms
mac· macOSwin· Windows- Applications
- Express Scribe · Word
- Interfaces
desk· Desktop GUI- GUI need · task setting
G2· GUI-essential- GUI need · ordinary access
CL· CLI-sufficient- Interaction primitives
av· Audio/video over timetype· Text & formskey· Shortcuts- Work product
WP05· Time-based media- Conditions
multiapp· Multi-app- Proposed difficulty
- 2 / 5
Proposed verifier
WER vs verbatim gold <= 5% (fillers counted); 4 time marks within 1 s of 0:30 multiples; header block fields exact. ASR engines and OOXML libraries are absent from the VM, so the audio must be transcribed by listening in Express Scribe and the file saved by Word (app metadata and rsids checked).
Proposed partial credit
70% verbatim accuracy; 15% time marks; 15% header.
R10.01.01.04-T15 Redact identifiers in a transcript and bleep the matching audio
Original instruction
input/911_call.wav and its transcript input/911_call.docx (synthetic) must be released with the caller's phone number, home address and date of birth removed. Replace them in the transcript with '[REDACTED]' and, in Audacity, replace each corresponding audio span with a 1 kHz tone of equal length. Export output/911_call_redacted.wav and .docx.
- Platforms
mac· macOSwin· Windowslin· Linux- Applications
- Audacity · Word
- Interfaces
desk· Desktop GUI- GUI need · task setting
G2· GUI-essential- GUI need · ordinary access
CL· CLI-sufficient- Interaction primitives
av· Audio/video over timedrag· Drag & droptype· Text & forms- Work product
WP05· Time-based media- Conditions
multiapp· Multi-app- Proposed difficulty
- 4 / 5
Proposed verifier
Audio: in each of 5 gold spans, 1 kHz tone energy dominates (>= 90%) and ASR of the output finds none of the identifiers; total duration unchanged within 10 ms; non-span audio correlation >= 0.99. Transcript has 5 '[REDACTED]' at the right places. sox, ffmpeg and Python audio libraries are absent from the VM and Audacity's mod-script-pipe is disabled, so tones must be applied in Audacity.
Proposed partial credit
45% audio spans toned; 20% duration and rest intact; 35% transcript redactions.
R10.01.01.04-T16 Cut video deposition clips from page-line designations
Original instruction
Descript project with the synced video deposition input/marlow_video.mp4 and its transcript. input/video_designations.xlsx lists 11 page:line ranges for trial playback. Create one clip per designation trimmed to the first and last designated words (no extra question fragments), title each 'Marlow <page:line>', and export output/clips/ as MP4 plus a clip report CSV with in/out timecodes.
- Platforms
mac· macOSwin· Windows- Applications
- Descript · Excel
- Interfaces
desk· Desktop GUI- GUI need · task setting
G2· GUI-essential- GUI need · ordinary access
CL· CLI-sufficient- Interaction primitives
av· Audio/video over timedrag· Drag & dropnav· Pan/zoom/scroll- Work product
WP05· Time-based media- Conditions
multiapp· Multi-app- Proposed difficulty
- 4 / 5
Proposed verifier
11 clips; in/out points within 0.3 s of gold word boundaries; ASR of each clip matches the designated text (WER <= 5%); report CSV timecodes equal clip boundaries. ffmpeg and ASR tools are not installed on the VM, so clips must be cut and exported in Descript (encoder metadata checked).
Proposed partial credit
60% clip boundaries; 25% clip content; 15% report.
R10.01.01.04-T17 Export a page-line to timecode sync table for a video deposition
Original instruction
Case CATalyst job 'Okafor_Video_1002' with synced video. Verify sync at the start of every page by playback, correct any line whose sync point is off by more than 1 s (seeded drift after a camera restart), and export a sync table output/okafor_sync.csv (page, line, timecode) for all lines.
- Platforms
win· Windows- Applications
- Case CATalyst
- Interfaces
desk· Desktop GUI- GUI need · task setting
G2· GUI-essential- GUI need · ordinary access
G3· GUI-only- Interaction primitives
av· Audio/video over timenav· Pan/zoom/scrolldrag· Drag & drop- Work product
WP05· Time-based media- Conditions
licensed· Licensed pro apphidden· Hidden/stale state- Proposed difficulty
- 4 / 5
Proposed verifier
Sync CSV vs gold: >= 97% of lines within 0.5 s, all lines after the camera restart within 1 s; row count equals transcript lines. ASR and alignment tools are not installed on the VM, so drift can be found only by playback in Case CATalyst; the CSV must match the saved job's sync table.
Proposed partial credit
40% pre-restart lines; 45% post-restart lines corrected; 15% complete table.
R10.01.01.04-T18 Transcribe a contentious multi-party hearing with overlapping speech
Original instruction
Descript project 'Custody_Hearing_0711' (45 min, synthetic; judge, two counsel, two witnesses, frequent crosstalk). Starting from the ASR draft, produce a transcript with speaker names from input/appearances.pdf, overlapping speech marked with '--' per input/style_guide.pdf, '(Pause.)' and '(Recess.)' parentheticals at the gold points, and export output/custody_hearing.docx.
- Platforms
mac· macOSwin· Windows- Applications
- Descript
- Interfaces
desk· Desktop GUI- GUI need · task setting
G2· GUI-essential- GUI need · ordinary access
G3· GUI-only- Interaction primitives
av· Audio/video over timetype· Text & formsclick· Point & click- Work product
WP05· Time-based media- Conditions
long· Long-horizon- Proposed difficulty
- 5 / 5
Proposed verifier
WER <= 3%; word-level speaker attribution >= 97%; overlap markers at >= 80% of gold crosstalk points; parentheticals within 2 s of gold positions. ASR and diarization tools are not installed on the VM, and the docx must match the transcript saved in the Descript project.
Proposed partial credit
40% text accuracy; 35% speaker attribution; 15% overlap marks; 10% parentheticals.
R10.01.01.04-T19 Correct the same deposition draft with ASR and scripts only (control)
Original instruction
Control pair of T02. Given input/marlow_audio.wav and input/marlow_rough.txt, produce output/marlow_cli.txt using command-line tools only (e.g. whisper.cpp alignment plus scripted edits) with Q/A formatting and 25 lines per page.
- Platforms
lin· Linux- Applications
- whisper.cpp · Python
- Interfaces
term· Terminal- GUI need · task setting
CL· CLI-sufficient- GUI need · ordinary access
CL· CLI-sufficient- Interaction primitives
code· Code & commands- Work product
WP05· Time-based media- Conditions
- None declared
- Proposed difficulty
- 3 / 5
Proposed verifier
Same metrics as T02 (WER <= 2%, Q/A line-type accuracy >= 98%). Measures whether the CAT audio-sync GUI adds accuracy over a scripted pipeline.
Proposed partial credit
50% WER; 30% Q/A formatting; 20% pagination.
R10.01.01.04-T20 Resolve a scopist's thirty check marks against the audio
Original instruction
Eclipse CAT job 'Chen_Depo_0903' carries 30 scopist 'check' marks on doubtful words. For each, play the synced audio, correct the word or confirm it, then remove the mark. Leave a note only on spots that remain truly unclear after listening.
- Platforms
win· Windows- Applications
- Eclipse CAT
- Interfaces
desk· Desktop GUI- GUI need · task setting
G2· GUI-essential- GUI need · ordinary access
G3· GUI-only- Interaction primitives
av· Audio/video over timenav· Pan/zoom/scrolltype· Text & forms- Work product
WP05· Time-based media- Conditions
licensed· Licensed pro app- Proposed difficulty
- 3 / 5
Proposed verifier
At the 30 marked spots, word accuracy vs gold >= 93%; 0 check marks remain; notes only on the 2 gold-unclear spots; diff outside marked spots empty. ASR engines are not installed on the VM, so doubtful words can be resolved only by listening via Eclipse's audio sync.
Proposed partial credit
60% marked spots correct; 20% marks cleared; 20% notes and no collateral edits.
Mapped research references
No benchmark reference is assigned to this class in the current mapping.