[laughing_man]

>If they miss a word they never do unintelligible, they just start playing madlibs based on the rest of the sentence.

Isn't that what people do?

[Lammy]

For in-person conversations to keep the conversation flowing, sure, but any good transcription will say [unintelligible] when the scribe couldn't tell despite being able to listen over it again and again.

Nixon tapes for example: https://kagi.com/search?q=site%3Anixonlibrary.gov+%22unintel...