Impeccable Radio Transcription

Radio transcription is typing out radio broadcasts, interviews and call-in segments, including callers with poor line quality. 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.

In practice: stations, media monitors, advertisers checking placements and researchers studying coverage. The common thread is that the finished file leaves their hands and is relied on by someone else, so it is checked against the source before delivery and anything uncertain is marked. A lot of the work arrives from archives, estates and institutions digitising what they hold.

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

Music beds and talk-over segments are marked so the spoken content stays clear. 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.

Station idents and ad breaks can be noted or stripped out, as you prefer. Nothing there is an upgrade, and work that falls outside the agreed radio 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 radio 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. Radio 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.

The delivery date is agreed before work starts, and rush delivery within 2 to 24 hours covers anything urgent. Material sent at the end of your working day is in progress overnight. Radio 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.

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 radio 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. Radio transcription often involves material people would not want circulated, so the file is closed to everyone except the pair working on it. Archive material is often the only copy in existence, so originals are logged, restricted and returned. They can also be deleted on an agreed schedule after delivery, with written confirmation.