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Table 1 Examples of how audio quality influences automated transcription

From: Telehealth for the study of palliative care communication: opportunities, methodological challenges, and recommendations

Possible Reasons for Inaudible Transcript Sections

Participants speaking quietly

Participants speaking over each other

Poor internet connection

Poor audio (usually on patient side)

Unfamiliar language (medical speak)

Speaker accents or difficulty speaking (illness-related)

Unbalanced sound levels (louder on one side, usually clinician)

Environmental noise (beeping, conversation, machine sounds, radio/TV)