Accurate Transcription Services

General transcription starts at $1 per audio minute and legal transcription at $2. The published rate is the starting point, and your exact total for accurate transcription is confirmed in writing from the files you send. The source format makes no difference to the rate; digitising legacy media appears as its own line in the quote.

Mainly how long the recording runs, how clear the audio is and how many people are speaking, plus how quickly you need it back. Clean source material on a standard deadline sits at the base accurate transcription rate, while poor audio, several speakers or a same-day deadline costs more. Condition matters more than age: a clean 1980s cassette is cheaper to work from than a bad phone recording.

Send the files or a link with a note on what you need and when. The accurate transcription quote comes back within minutes for most jobs, calculated from the actual material, and it holds while you get approval internally. This site is built around audio, video and document material in almost any format, including legacy media.

All of the usual methods are accepted: Visa, Mastercard, American Express, Discover, PayPal, Square, wire transfer and checks. The figure invoiced for accurate transcription is always the one you approved in the written quote. Archives, broadcasters and institutions sending media in batches are invoiced monthly instead of item by item.

Small accurate transcription orders are taken and there is no account to open first. Any minimum appears in the written quote so you see it before you decide, and batching a few short files into one order usually works out cheaper. A single cassette, disc or file is accepted on its own, which is how most archive projects begin.

Human work, an independent check against the source, standard formatting and delivery in the format you choose. Revisions are free for 30 days after delivery, so a correction on accurate transcription does not turn into a second invoice. Degraded tape and low-bitrate audio go to people used to that loss, not to software that fills the gaps with guesses.

Certified documents are priced per page at $25. That sits outside the accurate transcription rates above because certification covers the formatting, the statement of accuracy and the responsibility attached to it, not just the words. A certified page taken from a digitised document is priced per page on top of the work itself.

No. Everything normal to accurate transcription is inside the quoted figure, including formatting and delivery. If something in the material would change the price, you hear about it while you can still decide, not when the invoice arrives. Reading a file off its original format is part of the job, and only digitising legacy media is itemised.

Yes. Past an agreed size the rate drops, and departments sending accurate transcription every month can be priced monthly instead of job by job. Recurring terminology is held in a glossary, so it is settled once and applied to every later file. Archive projects are worked through in batches, so usable files arrive as they are finished.

Yes. Priority handling carries a premium, because it means putting a team on your files outside the normal queue. Rush delivery within 2 to 24 hours is available on accurate transcription, and the premium appears in the quote before you commit. Legacy media such as tape, MiniDV, DAT or optical disc adds a digitising step, and that is quoted and scheduled up front.