Option to remove timecode divisions in transcribed text

Hey there, 

Just figured out a pretty easy way to remove numbers from a transcript using MS Word.

- Open your exported transcript into Word

- Go to the replace function

- Type ^# into the "Find what" category. Leave the "Replace with" category empty. 

- The result should be all the numbers turn to ;

- Go back to the replace funtion and type ; in the "Find what" category. Leave "Replace with" empty. This leaves you with just the hyphens, and I find those and replace with nothing. This leaves you with all text and no timecodes. 

Hope this helps!

Thanks, Stan. To answer your question about what I'm doing, I'm simply transcribing and editing interviews from the text. Since the interview sections can sometimes be long or short, seeing them broken up into similarly-sized paragraphs really makes it difficult to tell where in the interview I am and what sort of reply I'm reading. Is it a short reply or a long reply? They all look the same at a glance! It's really quite a useless feature for what I'm doing.

I did like your suggestion of using CSV to export, however, as it allowed me to export the text without timestamps which was another time saver. While I like this new voice-to-text feature, it feels like it still has a long ways to go before it's truly useful for speeding up the editing workflow. I'm still doing my edits in a word processor and then duplicating them in Premiere afterwards because Premiere is so slow and buggy when trying to edit text directly. I've had the text window display errors multiple times while editing, having to close and re-open it. A pity as I was really excited about the new features.

I understand what you are asking. I'm curious as to what you are doing that requires this.

In the meantime, I am assuming you are using the "newer" merge behavior. Drag-select the parts you want to merge, and then merge. You only need to select part of the first and last paragraphs.

This made it easier than 2 paragraphs at a time.

But, yes, in a long interview, annoying.

If your request gets no traction, I'd also look at export csv of the transcript, open in Excel, and then use the speaker cell in a macro to combine. But I'm afraid that on reimport, it may not keep your restructuring.

The other request I hae seen is one to merge everything. That is now simple.

Stan

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