Accurate Transcription Services
If you expect accurate transcription services ensure you send your transcriptionist a good quality recording. Sometimes you need to put a lot of effort into producing a good recording as we hope the following tips help you.
In today’s electronics, recording can be done from your mobile phone, mp3 player etc making it easy to create audio. It all really depends on what you are recording and how well the equipment you have records.
Audio must be clear and easy to hear
Assess what you are recoding and determine if you require a single microphone or multiple microphone setups. A Dictaphone probably springs to mind and tends to be the best value but it can’t record the discussion from multiple people 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.
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.
Its fairly easy to distinguish what most transcription services do and who they are for. 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.