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A transcription service converts spoken language, either live or recorded, into written text documents. Common uses include court proceedings and doctors' voice notes. Transcription businesses can attend events to convert speeches into text or accept recorded audio files. Rates vary depending on factors like price per line, word, or hour. Transcription primarily serves law firms, government agencies, meetings, and nonprofits. While difficult pre-1970 without technology, cassettes later allowed work to be mailed to transcribers, including work from home. Modern technology like speech recognition and cloud storage now allows easy transcription from anywhere in just a few hours.

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A transcription service converts spoken language, either live or recorded, into written text documents. Common uses include court proceedings and doctors' voice notes. Transcription businesses can attend events to convert speeches into text or accept recorded audio files. Rates vary depending on factors like price per line, word, or hour. Transcription primarily serves law firms, government agencies, meetings, and nonprofits. While difficult pre-1970 without technology, cassettes later allowed work to be mailed to transcribers, including work from home. Modern technology like speech recognition and cloud storage now allows easy transcription from anywhere in just a few hours.

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Transcription (service)

A transcription service is a business service that converts speech (either live or recorded) into a
written or electronic text document. Transcription services are often provided for business, legal,
or medical purposes. The most common type of transcription is from a spoken-language source
into text such as a computer file suitable for printing as a document such as a report. Common
examples are the proceedings of a court hearing such as a criminal trial (by a court reporter) or
a physician's recorded voice notes (medical transcription). Some transcription businesses can send
staff to events, speeches, or seminars, who then convert the spoken content into text. Some
companies also accept recorded speech, either on cassette, CD, VHS, or as sound files. For a
transcription service, various individuals and organisations have different rates and methods of
pricing. That can be per line, per word, per minute, or per hour, which differs from individual to
individual and industry to industry. Transcription companies primarily serve private law firms, local,
state and federal government agencies and courts, trade associations, meeting planners, and
nonprofits.
Before 1970, transcription was a difficult job, as secretaries had to write down the speech as they
heard it using advanced skills, like shorthand. They also had to be at the location where the service
was required. But with the introduction of tape cassettes and portable recorders in the late 1970s,
the work became much easier and new possibilities emerged. Cassettes can travel through internal
mail or external mail which meant for the first time, the transcribers could have the work brought to
them in their own office which could be in a different location or business. For the first time,
transcribers could work from home for many different businesses at their own convenience, provided
they met the deadlines required by their clients.
With the birth of modern technology like speech recognition, transcription has become much easier.
An MP3-based Dictaphone, for example, can be used to record the sound. Recordings for
transcription can be in different media file types[1]. The recording can then be opened in a PC,
uploaded to a cloud storage, or emailed within minutes to someone who could be anywhere in the
world. Recordings can be transcribed manually or automatically[2]. The transcriptionist can replay the
audio several times in a transcription editor and type what he or she hears to manually transcribe
files, or with speech recognition technology convert audio files to the text. The manual transcription
can be accelerated using different transcription hot keys. The sound can also
be filtered, equalized or have the tempo adjusted when the clarity is poor. The completed document
can then be emailed back and printed out or incorporated into other documents – all within just a few
hours of the original recording being made.
The industry standard for transcribing an audio file takes one hour for every 15 minutes of audio. For
live usage, real-time text transcription services are available for captioning purposes,
including Remote CART, Captioned Telephone, and live closed captioning for live broadcasts. Live
transcripts are less accurate than offline transcripts, as there is no time for corrections and
refinements. However, in a multistage subtitling process with a broadcast delay and access to a live
audio feed it is possible to have several correction stages and for the text to be displayed at the
same time as the "live" transmission.

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