Research Transcription Services for Interview, Dictation, etc

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Transcription Services at Low, Flat Rate Prices

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One-on-One Interviews Dictation Phone Calls Lectures / Speeches Conference Calls Podcast Transcription Focus Groups Seminars Panel Discussions Multi-Person interview Research Interviews Documentary Interviews Reality TV - cinema verite TV 'as-broadcast'Film Continuity

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We can transcribe from a wide variety of audio formats for your research interviews. We will sign any confidentiality agreements as may be required and maintain H.I.P.A.A. compliance with regards to confidentiality.

We provide secure storage of your transcripts. Our web-accessible client area is encrypted with 128bit SSL encryption and password protected. In addition, we can strip out any identifying materials from your transcripts to maintain subject anonymity.

If you are just starting a project, we can provide advice on recording equipment and project organization that will save you great amounts of time and money in both the short and long term.

Note: We do not provide certified legal transcripts or court reporting services. For that type of service please use a court reporting firm.

If you're going to type notes on your laptop while conducting the interview we recommend a 'silent keyboard' like the GrandTec Flexible Keyboard. The sound of typing can adversely affect the quality of your transcription as the recorder will pick up that sound louder than you can imagine.

Classification	3 Days (huh?)
Type-2 Pricing
Classification	Turnaround
Type-2	$2.05/minute of audio
Add-On Services
Next Day Rush (huh?)	80% additional
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Minimum per transcript: $5 for uploaded files/ $20 for physical media.

Type 2 pricing applies to most research interviews. We will transcribe the respondent's answers Clean Verbatim.

Clean Verbatim - the content of the interviewee's responses are verbatim, but we omit the non-verbal utterance such as 'uh..' and 'uhm..', 'double- doubled' words and 'st-st-stutters'.

If professional recording practices and equipment are used, Type-1 pricing can apply to one-on-one research interviews. See One-on-One Interviews for more details.

On Type-1 files, the interviewer's questions are paraphrased. If you need both the interviewer's questions and the interviewee's response Clean Verbatim and not paraphrased, Type-2 pricing will apply irrespective.

In our experience though, most audio submitted by researchers does not meet the threshold of professional recording due to one or more the following reasons:

Researchers are trained in their field, not in professional sound recording.
Poor Sound Quality (e.g. consumer tape recorder placed on table between interviewer and subject)
Background Noise (e.g. interview recorded in cafeteria during lunch break)
Accents (all interviews with non-American dialect English as First Language speakers are Type 2)
Recorded on Microcassette (automatically Type 2)

DO NOT USE microcassette if at all possible. The sound quality is extremely poor on these devices. If you must, be sure to record in 2.4 fps and not 1.2 fps mode.
Proper recording technique makes a huge difference in transcription quality.
For Audio Cassettes, each side of the cassette is billed as a separate transcript. Thus, if you have a 60 minute lecture and 45 minutes of it are on Side A and 15 minutes are on Side B, you will be billed for two transcripts, one 45 minutes, the other 15 minutes. See our advice on Audio Cassette Recording for more details.

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