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Review the meaning first
Open the sermon from your library and use its transcript view. Listen to the recording alongside the text where available. Correct speaker names, scripture references, unfamiliar terms, and words such as “not” that change meaning. Read the sentences around an edit so the correction preserves the speaker’s intent.
Save your changes using the controls in the transcript workspace. Reopen the transcript to confirm the correction before generating new work. Review each generated result too: a corrected source improves the starting material but does not replace editorial judgment.
When you open the transcript, read through the full passage before editing. Search can help find repeated names or terms, but a search result is only a pointer: listen to the surrounding audio before changing the text. If preparation is still in progress, wait for the workspace to show the transcript as ready before judging whether words are missing.
Make corrections you can verify
- Start playback a few seconds before the phrase you are checking.
- Compare the spoken words with the transcript, including the sentence before and after the target phrase.
- Correct names, scripture references, unfamiliar terms and small words that change meaning.
- Save your edits and reopen or refresh the transcript to confirm the change was kept.
- Recheck any generated quote, caption or summary against the audio before publishing.
If the recording and manuscript disagree, use the recording when the output represents what was spoken. A manuscript is still useful for drafting, but it cannot confirm exact wording or timing. For a video quote, check both the transcript wording and the point where the speaker begins and ends the thought.
Manuscript or recording?
A manuscript may differ from what was actually spoken. When publishing a quotation or a caption over video, check the audio itself. See Choose and edit a moment for clip boundaries.
A focused first pass
For a sample sermon about patience, start with the central claim and any passage likely to become a clip or email. Listen for the difference between “patience is passive” and “patience is not passive”: one missing word changes the point. Check quoted passages, names and any repeated term that an automatic transcript may have consistently misunderstood.
Then read the text around each correction. A correct isolated word may still leave a sentence misleading if the speaker changed direction. Save and confirm the edited source before creating new drafts. For a captioned clip, listen again to the recording during final review; the transcript alone is not proof of timing.
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