May 2023 edition of Transcription News from University Transcriptions and TP Transcription Limited. Our newsletter includes updates on our charitable foundation’s work, a commentary on a new study into ethical considerations regarding the well being of transcribers and pitfalls to look out for when outsourcing transcription work.
Why use the services of a professional human transcriber, rather than an automated system?
Quite a lot of our work these days involves correcting machine transcription work (AI transcription), as it is not yet sufficiently accurate for most qualitative research work. Enquiries from researchers looking for assistance tend to include queries on cost, particularly if they have already got a transcript from their use of the AI transcription service.
October 2022 edition of Transcription News from University Transcriptions and TP Transcription Limited. Our newsletter includes updates on our charitable foundation’s work, machine transcription polishing and transcription as a career choice.
If you are an undergraduate or postgraduate student at a UK university, you may be surprised to hear your tutors instruct you to transcribe research interviews you undertake as part of your course yourself.
Senior managers at companies we speak to about our services will often suggest that their staff should really be doing the work themselves; after all why would you need to use a human transcription service to transcribe audio and video recordings in this day and age with all the software that’s out there to assist.
Surely this is a bit of a regressive move back in time if the future of transcription is automation and artificial intelligence? As automated systems get increasingly clever for both transcription and translation presumably there will no longer be any need for human translators and transcribers to provide their services?
How long does it take to transcribe about 20 minutes of audio? 80 minutes of transcriber time would be the rough rule of thumb. Article by our sister site TP Transcription Limited.
Are DBS checks necessary for transcription and translation work? Article by University Transcriptions and TP Transcription Limited.
How to order transcription and translation work at universities – we have experience of how to get work booked in at just about every university in the UK and more around the world including France.