General Audio Transcriber

General audio transcription is human transcription of general-purpose audio, from a single recording to a regular stream of files. 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.

The practical part is this: you set the style once - verbatim or clean-read, timestamps or none - and it applies to every file after. 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.

Rush delivery within 2 to 24 hours is available, and the delivery time is confirmed in writing before you pay. General audio transcription is scheduled against the people who actually do this work, not against a general pool. If a deadline cannot be met you are told at quoting stage, not on the day.

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. What gets checked on general audio transcription is the detail a reader would otherwise have to verify themselves: names, figures, terms and anything the source left ambiguous.

Files are handled under NDA, moved through encrypted transfer and seen only by the assigned team. General audio transcription often involves material people would not want circulated, so the file is closed to everyone except the pair working on it. They can also be deleted on an agreed schedule after delivery, with written confirmation.

Word, PDF, Excel, Google Docs or plain text. The format for general audio transcription is agreed at order stage, so the first delivery is the one you can file, send on or publish. Your house template can be applied from the first order, which is what keeps a set of documents looking like one set.

Send the files or a link, say what you need and when, and an exact quote comes back within minutes. Once you approve it the work goes to a transcriber suited to the material. Say what the general audio transcription is for when you send it, because a filing, a publication and an internal record are formatted differently. Revisions are free for 30 days after delivery.

Short files can be quoted and delivered the same day. Nothing there is an upgrade, and work that falls outside the agreed general audio transcription brief is priced separately and only once you have agreed to it. A digital master of the source can be returned alongside the finished file where the original is fragile.

Yes, in 100+ languages, each handled by a native speaker and not by someone working from a dictionary. What general audio 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.

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. General audio 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.