Professional Russian Transcription Services

Yes. Transcription in Russian - a language of Russia and Russian-speaking communities across the former Soviet states - is routine here, not something arranged specially when it comes up. The text is delivered in Cyrillic script, produced by a native speaker and checked by a second one before it reaches you.

Two people: a Russian-speaking transcriber who knows the subject, and a reviewer who reads the finished file against the source. Nobody works into Russian from a dictionary here, and nothing is delivered on one pair of eyes. Anything genuinely unclear is marked, never filled in.

Most often business meetings, legal and immigration recordings, interviews, media and technical material. Each type carries its own conventions - speaker labels for interviews, timestamps for legal material, clean formatting for anything published - and those are agreed before work starts. A lot of the work arrives from archives, estates and institutions digitising what they hold.

In Cyrillic script, as a reader of Russian would expect to see it, with a romanised version alongside it if you ask. The finished file is real text, not an image or a phonetic approximation, so your team can search it, paste from it and quote it. Older recordings often mix languages, and each one is kept as it was spoken instead of flattened into one.

Yes, and both files are delivered together so the English can be read against the Russian original and not taken on trust. Audio and video translation is $7 per minute, and certified document translation is $25 per page. A certified page taken from a digitised document is priced per page on top of the work itself.

General transcription starts at $1 per audio minute and legal transcription at $2. What moves the figure is how long the recording runs, how clear the audio is and how many people are speaking, so the quote is built from your actual files and not from a rate card. Russian is requested often enough that work starts straight away instead of waiting for a specialist to come free. You get an exact total in writing before anything starts.

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. Russian material with heavy code-switching takes longer to work through than clean single-speaker source, and the date you are given reflects that.

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 Russian 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.

It is handled by restricting access, not by promising discretion. Russian files often carry names, addresses and case references, so access stays with the assigned transcriber and the reviewer. Everyone on the job is under NDA, transfer is encrypted, and your own confidentiality agreement is signed before work starts if you have one.

Yes - regional Russian is the normal case here, not the exception. The Russian problem worth knowing about: six cases change word endings, and speakers from Ukraine, the Caucasus and Central Asia carry distinct accents. Matching the speaker to someone from the same region happens at assignment, so it costs nothing and removes most of the guesswork before anyone starts.