How to get a readable transcript instead of a verbatim one
Ask Vizard Agent for a clean transcript rather than a verbatim one, and say what to leave out. Verbatim is the default because it's the safe answer for subtitles and legal records. As a document to read, it's almost unusable, and cleaning it is a separate instruction.
What do you type into Vizard Agent?
Tell Vizard Agent three things: that you want it clean, what to leave out entirely, and what shape the document should have. "Keep the meaning exact" is the important counterweight. Cleaning a transcript means removing words, and the line between removing filler and paraphrasing is one you should draw explicitly.
Make a clean transcript with the filler removed. Leave out the speaker's introduction and the course admin. Keep the meaning exact, break it into paragraphs by topic, and put the lesson number in the heading.
What does Vizard Agent actually do?
It transcribes and then edits, as two passes. The raw text is prepared without timestamps, because timestamps make a transcript unreadable as prose. Then Vizard Agent reads it in sections and edits for sense, because a filler-word filter still leaves something that reads unmistakably like speech. In the session behind this article it:
- Pulled frames from across the recording to see what the lesson covered.
- Read the opening phrases and checked the title slides to identify the lesson and its number, since filenames drift.
- Prepared the transcript without timestamps, in a form convenient for editorial work.
- Read it through in four parts, editing each for meaning rather than word count, and left out the speaker's own introduction and the course admin as asked.
- Assembled the clean version into a text file and delivered it as a download.
When does this not work well?
When you need the exact words. A quote, a legal record, a subtitle file and a compliance review all want verbatim, so ask for both if you need both. Two people interrupting each other cleans into something odd, and a summary serves better. Cleaning can't rescue unclear audio either, so say if it's poor and Vizard Agent will flag the doubtful passages instead of smoothing them.
Common questions
Can I have both versions? Yes. Vizard Agent produces the verbatim text on the way to the clean one.
Will it change what was said? It shouldn't. Say "keep the meaning exact" and Vizard Agent removes rather than rewrites.
Can it do a whole course? Yes. Vizard Agent applies the same treatment to each lesson.