Online Transcription Services

This site handles transcription and typing from any audio, video or document format. Everything is produced by human transcribers and typists and checked by a second reviewer before delivery, which is what the 99+% accuracy standard rests on. Files are sent and returned online, so there is nothing to post and no appointment to make.

We cover over 100 languages, including Hindi, Spanish, Arabic, Chinese, French and Portuguese. Each file goes to a native speaker of the target language, and rarer languages are confirmed for availability before you pay. Material that mixes languages keeps each one as it was used.

Payment is by Visa, Mastercard, American Express, Discover, PayPal, Square, wire transfer and checks, and businesses and institutions can be set up on monthly invoicing instead of paying per job. There is no deposit and no account to set up before a first order. Archives, broadcasters and institutions sending media in batches are invoiced monthly instead of item by item. The price you approve in the written quote is the price you are charged.

No. Software is fast and cheap, but it mishears accents, crosstalk, names and technical terms, and those are the errors hardest to spot afterwards. Every file here is produced by a person and checked against the source by a second reviewer. This site is built around audio, video and document material in almost any format, including legacy media.

General transcription starts at $1 per audio minute and legal transcription at $2. The source format makes no difference to the rate; digitising legacy media appears as its own line in the quote. Every figure is confirmed against your actual files before you are asked to approve it. Nothing starts before you approve that figure in writing, and the invoice matches it exactly.

The delivery date is agreed before work starts, and rush delivery within 2 to 24 hours covers anything urgent. Material sent at the end of your working day is in progress overnight. Capacity is checked before a date is agreed, so the date in the quote is one the schedule can carry.

The 99+% accuracy standard comes from human work plus an independent check: one transcriber produces the file, another verifies it line by line against the source. Degraded tape and low-bitrate audio go to people used to that loss, not to software that fills the gaps with guesses. A file that is mostly right still has to be re-checked line by line by whoever receives it, and removing that second cost is the point of having a person produce it. That second pass is what catches a mistyped name or a passage of crosstalk recorded as one speaker.

It is handled by restricting access, not by promising discretion. Material arrives from law firms, hospitals, agencies and businesses, so restricted access is the default here and not an upgrade you ask for. Archive material is often the only copy in existence, so originals are logged, restricted and returned. Everyone on the job is under NDA, transfer is encrypted, and your own confidentiality agreement is signed before work starts if you have one.

Word, PDF, Excel, Google Docs or plain text. Word, PDF, Excel, Google Docs, SRT, VTT or audio - whichever the job produces, you choose the container. Your house template can be applied from the first order, which is what keeps a set of documents looking like one set.

Three steps: send the material, approve the quote, receive the finished work by email. Nothing starts before you approve the price, and revisions are free for 30 days after delivery. Anything ambiguous in the material is queried with you before work starts. Say what the material is stored on, because an older format changes what has to happen before anyone starts work.