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CD transcription is transcribing audio supplied on CD, including older recordings that were never digitised. The work goes to transcribers who do this particular job every day, not to a general pool, and each file is checked against the source by a second reviewer before it is sent. This site is built around audio, video and document material in almost any format, including legacy media.

Mostly law firms, insurers and institutions holding evidence and interviews on disc. What they have in common is material that has to be exact and not roughly right, which is why every file is checked against the source before delivery. A lot of the work arrives from archives, estates and institutions digitising what they hold.

The practical part is this: disc audio is ripped to a working file first, so nothing is lost to playback problems. It is agreed with you before anyone starts, because the alternative is a first delivery built on a guess and a second round of work to undo it. Anything on physical media is digitised first, logged, and then worked from the digital copy.

The recovered audio file can be returned alongside the transcript for your archive. That is part of what CD transcription means here, not an extra, and anything genuinely outside the brief is quoted before it starts. A digital master of the source can be returned alongside the finished file where the original is fragile.

Yes. CD transcription is available in 100+ languages, with every file going to a native speaker of the target language and a reviewer who also reads it. Older recordings often mix languages, and each one is kept as it was spoken instead of flattened into one. Where a language is rare, availability is checked before the quote.

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. CD transcription is quoted from the material you send, so a short job and a long one are worked out the same way. Quotes are calculated from how long the recording runs, how clear the audio is and how many people are speaking, so two clients sending comparable material pay the same, and nothing begins until you approve the written total.

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. Legacy media such as tape, MiniDV, DAT or optical disc adds a digitising step, and that is quoted and scheduled up front. CD transcription is scheduled against the people who actually do this work, not against a general pool.

Work is done by human transcribers and compared with the original before it is sent, which is how the 99+% accuracy standard is met. What gets checked on CD transcription is the detail a reader would otherwise have to verify themselves: names, figures, terms and anything the source left ambiguous. One person working alone would not catch a mistyped name or a passage of crosstalk recorded as one speaker.

It is handled by restricting access, not by promising discretion. CD transcription often involves material people would not want circulated, so the file is closed to everyone except the pair working on it. 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, or your own template applied so the file comes back ready to use. Headings, tables and numbering are built properly instead of pasted in. The format for CD transcription is agreed at order stage, so the first delivery is the one you can file, send on or publish.