TRANSCRIPTION SERVICE

Standard Service With our standard service : Our standard service includes our two-pass quality system where once a transcriptionist has transcribed the material, a proofreader will listen to the audio again and correct any inaccuracies and fill in as many inaudibles the first transcriptionist missed.

TRANSCRIBING RATES

We offer 2 different types of rates

•  PRICE PER LINE

You get the best price, the price by line. We count each character we type and every 65 characters we count one line. That's a true line count, not a line containing just a word or being empty. Most transcriptions are priced at 15-25 cents per line, so you pay a speck of a cent per character. It's that simple. You only pay for the information yielded from your tape, regardless how long it takes us to transcribe. It's a very fair way to price transcription.

One-on-one interviews and dictations

Rough Draft Service - 20 cents per line

Standard Service - 25 cents per line

Focus groups, meetings, multi-person interviews and similar recordings

Rough Draft Service - 30 cents per line

Standard Service - 35 cents a line.

•  PRICE PER HOUR
$30 per hour for Rough Daft service

$35 per hour for Standard Service

Price is based literally on the amount of time it takes to transcribe your recording. Generally, one hour of recording takes 3 to 8 hours to transcribe but this will vary depending on the recording quality, transcript format, number of participants, and other factors.

While we do not expect a perfect studio recording and will generally accept minor flaws and problems, the length of transcribing time will be considerable different with the following conditions:

• Audio quality
• Recording noise and flaws (tape hiss, bad mike, person too far away from mike, old tape etc).
• Exterior noise (trucks, restaurant/bar, music, airplane, background conversations etc.)
• Number of people
• People consistently talking on top of each other in an unstructured meeting.
• Heavy accents (foreign or English)
• Existence of audio that is not to be transcribed (such as lunch breaks during meetings) in analog recordings (tapes, cassettes) which we must spend time to sit through.

As a Standard Overview: 1 hour of recorded/dictated voice time (VT) = 3 to 8 hours of transcription time (TT)

Priority Fees : Same day service/less than 24 hours turnaround: 50% additional