Transcribing from poor quality recordings can be a difficult task for any transcriptionist and may result in a poor quality and expensive transcription. Use the tips contained within this post to help you record perfect audio to pass over to your transcription provider.

In today’s electronics, recording can be done from your mobile phone, mp3 player etc making it easy to create audio. The event you are recording and the equipment you are using will determine the quality of the audio

Test Audio is Clear

If several people are speaking which needed recorded you will need to take into consideration the recording device or devices.Dictaphones are the cheapest type of recording device but also the most restrictive and is only suitable for basic dictations.A person can speak quicker than they can type and the time taking to transcribe your recording can vary dependant on the quality of recording and the number of people talking.

Various Transcriptionist services to know about

Medical, verbatim, legal and medical transcription services are available to provide the market with the necessary services so be sure to work with the specialist that right for you.

Its fairly easy to distinguish what most transcription services do and who they are for. However, PACE and verbatim may be knew to you with names giving no clues as to what they are and how the work.

The name verbatim doesn’t give many clues at all.Verbatim transcriptions are highly detailed and contain an exact time stamp and include ever em, er, cough, burp etc! Verbatim transcriptions unlike its name is the most specific of all the transcription services which includes each em, er, cough etc

PACE is an acronym for Police and criminal evidence interviews (you hear them talk about it on CSI) and transcription services that is mainly used by Solicitors, Police Force, Enforcement organisations, Emergency Services, Security, Human Resource, Government bodies, Coast Guard, etc. PACE uses a verbatim format.