Audio Transcription services and Typing
If you expect accurate transcription services ensure you send your transcriptionist a good quality recording. Use the tips contained within this post to help you record perfect audio to pass over to your transcription provider.
You can find the facilities to record in most tape players, mini-disks and computers making it relatively easy to prepare for the transcriptions. The event you are recording and the equipment you are using will determine the quality of the audio
Test Audio is Clear
Assess what you are recoding and determine if you require a single microphone or multiple microphone setups. Dictaphones are the cheapest type of recording device but also the most restrictive and is only suitable for basic 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.
Various Transcriptionist services to know about
Different recordings require different services which you will find most transcription services either provide or specialise in. These include but are not limited to verbatim, medical, legal and PACE.
Medical and legal is self explanatory and consists of a unique set of transcription services specific to recordings supplied from doctors and lawyers. Some transcription services use acronyms or not so friendly names that aren’t clear like Pace and Verbatim.
The name verbatim doesn’t give many clues at all. Verbatim transcriptions is a super high detailed transcript of events
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.