Chinese Transcription Services

Yes. Transcription in Chinese (Mandarin) - a language of mainland China, Taiwan, Singapore and Chinese communities worldwide - is routine here, not something arranged specially when it comes up. The text is delivered in simplified or traditional characters, depending on the audience, produced by a native speaker and checked by a second one before it reaches you.

Yes. The Chinese (Mandarin) transcription is produced first, then a professional translator works from it, so you receive both files and can check one against the other. Audio and video translation is $7 per minute. A certified page taken from a digitised document is priced per page on top of the work itself.

By card, PayPal, Square, wire transfer or check, or on a monthly invoice where your finance team prefers one. Nothing is taken up front on Chinese (Mandarin) work: payment falls due once you have approved the written quote. Archives, broadcasters and institutions sending media in batches are invoiced monthly instead of item by item. Quotes are issued in writing and the invoice never exceeds the figure you approved.

Point out the passage and it is corrected at no charge, because revisions are free for 30 days after delivery. Where a name on an old recording turns out to be wrong, the fix is applied across the whole batch. Most corrections on Chinese (Mandarin) work are preferences about how a name should be spelled, and those are saved so later orders match. Work that goes beyond the original brief, such as a different template or a new style, is quoted before it starts.

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. Chinese (Mandarin) is requested often enough that work starts straight away instead of waiting for a specialist to come free. Nothing starts before you approve that figure in writing, and the invoice matches it exactly.

Urgent work is covered by rush delivery within 2 to 24 hours, depending on length and how difficult the source is. Chinese (Mandarin) material with heavy code-switching takes longer to work through than clean single-speaker source, and the date you are given reflects that. Longer jobs are split across a coordinated team working from one style sheet, so speed never costs consistency.

The standard is 99+%, reached by doing the job twice: one person produces the file, a second checks it 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. The reviewer on each Chinese (Mandarin) file checks names and terms against the source instead of reading the text through, because this material is full of names nobody can guess at.

Access is the control that matters, so it is kept to the assigned pair and nobody else. Chinese (Mandarin) files often carry names, addresses and case references, so access stays with the assigned transcriber and the reviewer. Archive material is often the only copy in existence, so originals are logged, restricted and returned. Transfer is encrypted, every person involved is under NDA, and files are deleted on request once you no longer need them held.

In the format your workflow already uses, with real styles and structure instead of flat text, so the file drops into your records without reformatting. Source material in almost any audio, video or document format is accepted, including formats most suppliers turn away. The Chinese (Mandarin) text itself is written in simplified or traditional characters, depending on the audience, with a romanised version alongside it if you ask.

Upload the material, approve the written quote and deadline, and work begins - no deposit, no account to set up. Say which Chinese (Mandarin) variety the speakers use when you send the files, because that is what decides who the job goes to. Say what the material is stored on, because an older format changes what has to happen before anyone starts work. Anything ambiguous is queried with you before work starts.