Ace Media Transcription For All Files

Media transcription is converting media audio and video into text for production, compliance, archives and repurposing. 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.

Worth asking for: back catalogues can be transcribed in batches so the archive becomes searchable over time. 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.

You are given a date, not a range: rush delivery within 2 to 24 hours where it is urgent, and a firm delivery time in the quote where it is not. Media transcription is scheduled against the people who actually do this work, not against a general pool.

The standard is 99+%, reached by doing the job twice: one person produces the file, a second checks it against the source. What gets checked on media 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.

Yes. Everyone who touches your material signs an NDA, transfer is encrypted, and access is limited to the people assigned to the job, usually one transcriber and one reviewer. Media transcription often involves material people would not want circulated, so the file is closed to everyone except the pair working on it. Your own agreement can be signed before the first file is sent.

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 media transcription is agreed at order stage, so the first delivery is the one you can file, send on or publish.

Upload the material, approve the written quote and deadline, and work begins - no deposit, no account to set up. Say what the media transcription is for when you send it, because a filing, a publication and an internal record are formatted differently. 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.

By card, PayPal, Square, wire transfer or check, or on a monthly invoice where your finance team prefers one. Archives, broadcasters and institutions sending media in batches are invoiced monthly instead of item by item. Media transcription is billed on completion against the approved quote, with no deposit taken up front. Quotes are issued in writing and the invoice never exceeds the figure you approved.

Yes, in 100+ languages, each handled by a native speaker and not by someone working from a dictionary. What media 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, with volume pricing once a project passes an agreed size. The quote for media transcription is worked out from how long the recording runs, how clear the audio is and how many people are speaking. Media transcription is quoted from the material you send, so a short job and a long one are worked out the same way. Send the material and the figure comes back within minutes.