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Whether your recording dictation, interviews, conferences, medical, legal, focus groups or meetings, it is important to know how to get the best quality recording, how to find a competent transcriptionist, and what sort of costs you are looking at. On average it takes four hours to transcribe one hour of recording, It takes longer if it is a medical recording but this varies considerably. It might be closer to three hours for one person speaking into a Dictaphone but could well be at least six to eight hours for a large focus-group. This is because we speak much faster than even the fastest typist can type. Also, the transcriptionist doesn’t just type what he or she hears - it has to make sense.
Although your transcriptionist should only type what’s being said (unless specifically requested to edit), it’s not just a matter of the right words, but also the right punctuation and, of course, picking the correct homonym (e.g. there or their; two, to or too; pare, pear or pair; fair or fare; the list is almost endless). The challenge here is meeting a certain deadline. Everybody wants to get the best results out of their recordings. Though the length of transcribing time also depends on the quality of the audio, it is also best if the recording quality is good as well as the clarity of the words being spoken.
We at Assistants in India have the most qualified transcriptionist available at your disposal. May it be medical, legal, podcast, interviews, conferences, meetings, dictations, etc; our VAs will be able to produce the best results in a shortest time possible. To achieve that, our VAs have the best equipment to meet your transcribing needs. Our VAs’ keen ears can adapt to difficulties in your recordings and re listen then proofread them to make sure everything is correct.
