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At Capital Typing, we consider audio (and video) recordings as “lectures” when one or more people address an audience sequentially. For example, a person speaks or introduces another speaker, the speaker addresses the audience, and a moderator concludes the session. From the acoustic point of view, lecture transcription is a challenging task. The following factors affect the recording quality for lectures: - Whether or not they are professionally recorded
- Degree of interaction between the lecturer and the audience
- Excessive background noise
- Poor sound quality (tape or environment)
- Lecture is recorded from the audience
- Lecture recorded on microcassette
Other factors that sometimes affect transcription turnaround time for lecture transcription are subject matter and accents (when the lecturer is using English as a second language, for example). Some of the benefits of outsourcing Lecture Transcription to Capital Typing include: - We are happy to transcribe any Q&A session or audience participation, and include them in your lecture transcript.
- If your lecture has a presentation aspect (PowerPoint slides, for example), we can arrange to match these with the lecture transcript (we provide video and DVD transcription services).
- We are equipped to convert both standard analog tapes and minidiscs to PC-based digital audio files for subsequent digital transcription, and we can provide you with the digital recordings.
- For lectures transmitted as podcasts, we provide podcast transcription services as well.
- We assign business transcriptionists who are specialized and experienced in the particular subject matter of the lecture(s), and when possible we instruct our transcriptionists to prepare for particular topics (legal transcriptionists for law school lectures, medical transcriptionists for medical topics, etc.).
- We provide language transcription services (we can transcribe lectures delivered in French, Spanish, German and Portuguese). We also provide excellent transcription translation services (we translate lecture transcripts from one language to another).
Capital Typing’s lecture transcription services stand far above similar services provided by others in the transcription industry. Our exclusive triple-pass quality assurance system enables us to guarantee 99% transcript accuracy. Our Lecture Transcription staff will routinely undertake Internet research to identify names or terminology in recorded lectures. In addition, our transcription pricing structure is simple, predictable and precise, enabling us to offer our clients considerable savings alongside with unparalleled transcription expertise. Contact us today.
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