If you expect accurate transcription services ensure you send your transcriptionist a good quality recording. Regardless of how good or important the information contained within your recording is you need to discover how to record properly.

You can find the facilities to record in most tape players, mini-disks and computers making it relatively easy to prepare for the transcriptions. It all really depends on what you are recording and how well the equipment you have records.

Test Audio is Clear

Assess what you are recoding and determine if you require a single microphone or multiple microphone setups. Pound for pound Dictaphones tend to be the cheapest but only useful for simple dictations The time a transcription takes to complete depends on a few factors such as the length of the audio file, audio quality and the number of people speaking.

What different transcription services exist

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.

Finding the right transcription services for your take requires picking the right service and thankfully most can be worked out based on their service name. 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 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.