Everything about Transcription Services

Transcribing from poor quality recordings can be a difficult task for any transcriptionist and may result in a poor quality and expensive transcription. Use the tips contained within this post to help you record perfect audio to pass over to your transcription provider.

Using the right equipment for the event you are recording is important and may require more than a mobile phone or Dictaphone. The event you are recording and the equipment you are using will determine the quality of the audio

Audio must be clear and easy to hear

Think about how many people will be talking to determine if you require a single microphone or multiple microphones. Pound for pound Dictaphones tend to be the cheapest but only useful for simple dictations A person can speak quicker than they can type and the time taking to transcribe your recording can vary dependant on the quality of recording and the number of people talking.

What different transcription services exist

Medical, verbatim, legal and medical transcription services are available to provide the market with the necessary services so be sure to work with the specialist that right for you.

Medical and legal is self explanatory and consists of a unique set of transcription services specific to recordings supplied from doctors and lawyers. However, PACE and verbatim may be knew to you with names giving no clues as to what they are and how the work.

A verbatim transcription sounds like a transcription that would be done by a rat! Verbatim transcriptions are highly detailed and contain an exact time stamp and include ever em, er, cough, burp etc! Verbatim transcriptions unlike its name is the most specific of all the transcription services which includes each em, er, cough etc

PACE is an acronym for Police and criminal evidence interviews (you hear them talk about it on CSI) and transcription services that is mainly used by Solicitors, Police Force, Enforcement organisations, Emergency Services, Security, Human Resource, Government bodies, Coast Guard, etc. PACE uses a verbatim format.