Transcription

Transcription focuses on turning recorded audio into written text. This work creates a written version of spoken content so it can be reviewed, edited, developed, or used in other parts of a project. It is often an early step in a larger process, especially when spoken content needs to become clear and usable text before anything else can happen.

Where Transcription Fits in a Project

Transcription often comes at the beginning of a project. Once recorded content becomes written text, that text may move into editing, writing and content development, design, or production depending on how the content will be used.

Not every project that begins with recorded content needs every later step, but transcription often makes the next stage possible by creating text that can be reviewed and used.

What This Work Includes

This work includes converting recorded audio into written text and preparing that text in a readable format. Depending on the project, the resulting text may then move into editing, writing and content development, or other later stages.

When This Work Is Useful

This work is useful when spoken content needs to become text before it can be reviewed, revised, developed, or used elsewhere. It may help when a project begins with interviews, meetings, recordings, spoken notes, or other audio content.

Transcription is different from editing and writing. Transcription creates the written text. Editing improves that text, and writing or content development build on it when more development is needed.

How We Review Your Project

We review transcription work based on the length of the recording, the clarity of the audio, and how the finished text will be used. This helps us determine the amount of work involved and what the next stage of the project may require.

Turnaround

Turnaround depends on the length and clarity of the recording and how quickly the finished text is needed. We confirm turnaround after we review your project.