Deposition Transcription services

Deposition transcription is transcribing depositions and examinations under oath from audio or video recordings. The work is produced by people and not by software, and what shapes it here is audio, video and document material in almost any format, including legacy media, so the deliverable fits how you actually work instead of a generic template. Every file is checked by a second reviewer before it is sent.

Yes, in 100+ languages, each handled by a native speaker and not by someone working from a dictionary. What deposition transcription involves does not change with the language, and the same independent check happens before delivery. Older recordings often mix languages, and each one is kept as it was spoken instead of flattened into one.

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. Archives, broadcasters and institutions sending media in batches are invoiced monthly instead of item by item. Deposition transcription is billed on completion against the approved quote, with no deposit taken up front. The price you approve in the written quote is the price you are charged.

Send it back and it is fixed at no cost: revisions are free for 30 days after delivery. Corrections on deposition transcription are usually about house style and not mistakes, and once yours is set it is applied to every later order. Where a preference differs from ours, yours is applied and not argued over.

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. Deposition transcription is quoted from the material you send, so a short job and a long one are worked out the same way. Nothing starts before you approve that figure in writing, and the invoice matches it exactly.

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

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 deposition transcription is the detail a reader would otherwise have to verify themselves: names, figures, terms and anything the source left ambiguous. Degraded tape and low-bitrate audio go to people used to that loss, not to software that fills the gaps with guesses. 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. Deposition transcription often involves material people would not want circulated, so the file is closed to everyone except the pair working on it. 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. Source material in almost any audio, video or document format is accepted, including formats most suppliers turn away. The format for deposition transcription is agreed at order stage, so the first delivery is the one you can file, send on or publish.

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. Say what the deposition transcription is for when you send it, because a filing, a publication and an internal record are formatted differently.