Cheap Priced Transcription Services

Affordable transcription is keeping transcription costs down without ending up with a transcript you cannot use. 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 small businesses, students and individuals paying out of pocket. 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 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. What gets checked on affordable transcription is the detail a reader would otherwise have to verify themselves: names, figures, terms and anything the source left ambiguous. That second pass is what catches a mistyped name or a passage of crosstalk recorded as one speaker.

Yes. NDAs cover every person on the project, uploads and deliveries are encrypted, and nobody outside the assigned team can open your material. Archive material is often the only copy in existence, so originals are logged, restricted and returned. Affordable transcription often involves material people would not want circulated, so the file is closed to everyone except the pair working on it.

Word, PDF, Excel, Google Docs or plain text. The format for affordable transcription is agreed at order stage, so the first delivery is the one you can file, send on or publish. Source material in almost any audio, video or document format is accepted, including formats most suppliers turn away. Your house template can be applied from the first order, which is what keeps a set of documents looking like one set.

Volume discounts apply to larger libraries, and standard turnaround costs less than rush. That is settled before work begins and not discovered afterwards, so the first delivery is the one you can use. Anything on physical media is digitised first, logged, and then worked from the digital copy.

Worth asking for: a free quote based on runtime tells you the cost before you commit. It is easier to set at order stage than to retrofit, and it costs nothing on top of the quoted rate when it is part of the original brief. A digital master of the source can be returned alongside the finished file where the original is fragile.

Yes. Affordable 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. What moves the figure is how long the recording runs, how clear the audio is and how many people are speaking, so the quote is built from your actual files and not from a rate card. The source format makes no difference to the rate; digitising legacy media appears as its own line in the quote. Affordable transcription is quoted from the material you send, so a short job and a long one are worked out the same way. You get an exact total in writing before anything starts.

It depends on length and on how difficult the source is, and the time is in the quote before you commit. Rush delivery within 2 to 24 hours covers the urgent end. Legacy media such as tape, MiniDV, DAT or optical disc adds a digitising step, and that is quoted and scheduled up front. Affordable transcription is scheduled against the people who actually do this work, not against a general pool.