Collect the source package
Keep the least-compressed recording, programme, speaker list, company names, slides and terminology. Decide whether the deliverable is one archive, individual talks or session publications.
The programme and slide deck resolve names, session boundaries and visual references that cannot be recovered reliably from the mixed audio alone.
Specify a usable deliverable
Require verified speaker labels, consistent timestamps, explicit inaudible markers, audience questions and links back to the recording. A wall of text is difficult to publish or audit.
Specify whether timestamps mark paragraphs, speaker turns or topics, and keep one convention across every session in the archive.
Review the risky words
Names, products, numbers and acronyms need playback verification. Speaker diarisation assigns text to voices but cannot repair words the recogniser got wrong.
Review audience microphones and transitions separately because these regions combine low volume, overlap and missing participant metadata.
We show the practical differences between models in Our open-model transcription test on long Russian recordings.
Build a searchable archive
Connect every paragraph to the source time, and index talks, people, subjects and slides. Repeatable naming and review rules make the next event cheaper to process.
A stable identifier for each talk and source moment lets editors correct text once and reuse it safely in later publications.