Welcome to the August 2026 edition of Transcription News from TP Transcription and University Transcriptions.
This month we look at improving recording quality, planning transcription for a new research project, live transcription services and our latest charitable donation.
TP Transcription was established in 2001. We provide specialist human transcription and translation services to businesses, universities, researchers, public bodies and professional organisations.
Avoiding poor-quality recordings
Clear audio improves transcription accuracy and can reduce both cost and turnaround time.
Our new recording guide covers room selection, microphone placement, test recordings, overlapping speech, online meetings and checking files before participants leave.
Read Common Audio and Video Recording Problems and How to Avoid Them
Planning transcription for a research project
Researchers should consider transcription when preparing ethics applications, participant information, consent documents, budgets and project timetables.
Planning early also allows the research team to decide whether it needs intelligent verbatim, strict verbatim, timestamps, anonymisation or specialist formatting.
Read Starting a New Research Project? When to Plan for Transcription
Live transcription and professional reporting
The Typing Works now provides a range of on-site and remote reporting services.
Options include reporter or logger attendance, qualified stenographic reporting, attendance followed by a checked transcript and near-instantaneous live transcript feeds.
The service can be used for court and quasi-judicial proceedings, workplace hearings, meetings, research sessions, conferences and consultations.
Read about live transcription services
£500 donation to Purple Patch Arts
The Ten Percent Foundation has donated £500 to Purple Patch Arts.
The Yorkshire charity provides creative and inclusive lifelong learning for learning-disabled adults and young people. It also supports meaningful involvement by learning-disabled people in research.
Read about our Purple Patch Arts donation
Recent transcription articles
You may also be interested in:
- Anonymising Interviewees in Video Research Interviews
- How to Get a Transcription from Google Meet
- How to Improve the Quality of Zoom Transcriptions
- A Guide to Scottish Accents
- Looking After the Welfare of Transcribers
If we can help with transcription, translation or a forthcoming recording project, request a quotation or call 01745 813306.
