How long does it take to transcribe a one hour long transcription?
Transcription industry standards dictate that 10 to 15 minutes of speech takes one hour to type. Therefore, a 60 minute recording should take somewhere in the region of 4 to 6 hours to transcribe. This is based on a good quality recording without any hindering factors.
What is 'Verbatim' transcription?
This is a full transcript of everything that is said in the recording including the common 'ems', 'ers', 'sort of', 'you know' etc. These types of transcripts are often required for interviews by universities for qualitative analysis and by the legal profession.
What is 'Smart Verbatim' transcription?
This is an intermediate transcription, but omitting the 'ems', 'ers', 'sort of' and other meaningless utterances.
What is 'Intelligent Verbatim' transcription?
This type of transcription is commonly used for lectures, meetings, conferences, symposia and some interviews. All housekeeping issues are omitted from the transcript and the 'ems' and 'ers', 'you knows', 'I mean' and 'sort of' utterances are left out. In addition, abbreviations can be removed on request and replaced with formal terms, such as 'I've' is replaced with 'I have', and 'you're' is replaced with 'you are'. Please note that this option will slow the transcription process down a little and in turn will affect our fee outcome.
Confidentiality
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The obligation of confidentiality shall continue to apply without limit in time after the work has been carried out and/or termination of the contract.
I am happy to enter into a signed Confidentiality Agreement stating the above and am equally as happy to enter into an agreement drawn up by the client.
