#interview transcribing

In the business sectors face to face interviews are conducted. These interviews are recorded and then transcribed by a interview transcription company to assess the skills of the candidate or interviewee. Many interview transcription companies launch new products, the customer care department of these companies conduct interviews with customers, so that they can know the customer feedback. All these are recorded and documented for the further analyses of the product, as well as for the further growth of the organization.

Likewise authors conduct interviews with their subjects to gather content for their books. Non-fiction authors, writing books on personality development have discussions with many people and professionals coming from different walks of life. All these interviews need to be transcribed. The transcripts serve as a handy tool to develop the content of for their book.

Transcription service is a business which converts the live or recorded speech into written or electronic document.  The transcription services are provided for different purposes like medical purposes, legal purpose and other business purposes. Interview Transcription is a significant segment in the transcription service industry. This service is needed for a number of universities, market research companies doing research projects and for different types of field. Many students as part of their coursework, undertake research interviews

The interviews are recorded by a number of tools. Previously it was recorded by a tape recorder and some other traditional methods. All those methods have become obsolete. Now days interview are recorded by a number of innovative methods. A number of software and other tools are available in the market to record the interviews like Skype, PowerGramo, Audacity, etc.

Skype: This software can be simply downloaded. We can easily have online voice chat with any of our contact without any charge.

PowerGramo: This recorder starts robotically to record all calls made with Skype.

Audacity: This is a free open source recording and editing program. With the help of the simple tools available in this program, the audio files can be edited and exported into differnt audio formats like MP, WAV, etc.

 How the Interview transcription companies transcribe the interviews?

Almost all the top Interview transcription service providers accept audio files in different formats like, mp3, WAV, MPEG-4 SLS, MPEG4 -ALS Vorbis, Musepack, AAC, ATRAC etc. Some leading transcription companies also accept audio tapes interviews recorded with audio tape recorder like Sony TCM210DV, and provide quality audio to text transcription services.

A good interview transcription service employs transcribers having accurate listening skills, patience and careful editing skills. Depending on the type of audio, an hour long interview takes nearly four to six hours to transcribe.

Transcription companies provide interview transcription services in different methods at different transcription rates. .

Verbatim transcription

In this type of Interview transcription services, everything is that is recorded are transcribed. This includes even the ers, erms, repetitions etc. The pauses, laughter, coughing are put in brackets.

Intelligent Verbatim transcription (without slang)

In this transcription, the transcribers will use his common sense and removes the ers, erms, repetitions, you knows, etc. In this way the transcription is made sensible with all the relevant information.The abbreviation are typed in full grammar form. This facilitate the transcript to be read in good English standards

  Intelligent verbatim transcription (with slang)

It is similar to the above mention transcription except the slang words like wand, gonna etc are transcribed. .

Discourse analysis:

It is either verbatim or intelligent transcriptions other than presenting each and every pause, laughter, cough etc. The short pause will be displayed as (.), medium pause as (…) and long pause as (…..), (laughter), (cough), (loudly spoken) etc.

The transcription companies offer the following types of interview transcription services

Student research interview transcription

Marketing and research interview transcription

Job interview transcription

Police station interview transcription together with PACE

Journalist interview transcription

Telephone interview transcription

Radio interview transcription

Press briefing transcription

Transcription of Lectures

Focus group transcription

One to one interview transcription

Transcription of University research project

Speech Transcription

Psychological interviews

Corporate transcription

Dissertations

Interview transcription is an umbrella term used to refer to any question and answer session. It covers a broad spectrum of fields such as journalistic interviews, university Q/A sessions, job interviews or business meetings. They serve as a record for future reference, for documentation purposes and as legal proof.

It serves as a handy tool for journalists who cannot take down each and every word when an interview is in progress, it can lead to frayed nerves both for the interviewer as well as the interviewee! The need to record the conversation hence arises to reduce time consumption and errors. To transcribe the recorded conversation into a text file is a tedious process and requires an eye for detail as even a minor error can lead to a huge controversy. Journalists all over the globe being the busy professionals they are outsource their transcription work to save on time.

The text documentation of job interviews and business meetings is also of prime importance as they serve as a reference point. A valid legal documentation of business conversations and transactions is a must as it goes a long way in avoiding legal wrangles.

In university Q/A sessions and lectures, text documentation plays a pivotal role as they can be saved for posterity and used for future research, sent to academic journals for publication or as a tool to gauge the level of interest and understanding of the students.

The need for text documentation corresponds with the need for interview transcription services as it is next to impossible in today’s fast paced world to take time off from dizzying schedules to transcribe audio bytes. Transcription services have thus penetrated each and every sphere of life as every professional worth his salt needs the service of a transcriber for transcription and documentation needs.