Do you use AI to complete transcriptions?
No. At no time in the process will any AI be used to transcribe your audio or video recordings by TP Transcription Limited or University Transcriptions. We provide 100% human transcription services to our clients and for good reason; AI transcription is simply not accurate enough. It makes very basic mistakes which can change the…
How long does human transcription take?
Read our full article here – https://tptranscription.co.uk/how-long-does-human-transcription-take-to-complete/
Do you offer an instant transcription service?
Yes we do. We have provided ‘real time’ manual transcription services for many years – it is highly specialist work. For example we have live transcribed the BAFTA award night for an instant transcription to be available to media companies and we regularly provide instant transcription services to a number of academic clients who need…
Do you offer anonymisation, de-identification and pseudonymisation?
Yes. We offer various options for GDPR and HIPAA compliant anonymisation and de-identification, as well as pseudonymisation. Please click here for details.
How much capacity have you got for transcription work?
We have as much capacity as you will ever need to get your work done. Whether you send us one minute or 500,000 minutes of recording, we will be able to handle your work. Our team of transcribers expands according to the work we have available. Large enough to handle bulk work, small enough to…
What audio formats can you work with?
We can work with most Digital Audio Formats including: AACACTAIFC (Compressed AIFF)AIFFAMRAPEAUCAF (Apple Core Audio Format)DCT (Express Dictate, MSRS, etc.)DS2 (DSS Pro)DSS (Grundig, Olympus, Philips recorder)DSP TrueSpeechDVF (Sony recorder)DVS (Royal recorder)FLACOGGM4AMP2MP3MPCMSV (Sony recorder)QCPRA / RM (RealAudio)SHNSPXVOCVOXWAV (Including ADPCM, aLaw, GSM 6.10,PCM, and uLaw codecs)WMA We can work with most Digital Video Formats including: 3G23GPASFAVIDivXDVFLVM4VMKVMOVMP4MPEGVOBWMV If…
I don’t want the whole file transcribed – can you do this?
Yes – we can transcribe extracts from audio files. When you upload your file, just specify the start point and end point in the recording that you need transcribing. So for example if your file is 45 minutes long and you only want part of the recording transcribed, you would add the following instruction: “transcribe…
What is the largest order you can handle?
We are happy to handle any orders of any size, from a small 30 second file through to bulk orders of 50,000 hours or more of recordings. Whilst you may not get your 50,000 hours of recordings back within 14 days, we can still assist. Our company has worked on many large research projects for…
Do you use AI (artificial intelligence) to complete transcription work?
Absolutely not. Whilst this may sound like we are a bunch of Luddites, the automated transcription technology is simply not good enough to process high quality transcription work using intelligent verbatim. For simple dictation Dragon Dictation and many other pieces of software have been around for over 25 years and function perfectly well. Unfortunately for…
What level of transcription do I require?
We offer five levels of transcription, but the overwhelming majority of transcription work is completed to Level 3, “Intelligent Verbatim”. A description of each level is below. Intelligent verbatim is suitable for all dictation, interviews, focus groups, legal proceedings, meetings, conferences, telephone calls, Zoom meetings and podcasts. Level 4 “Strict Verbatim” is only really suitable…
