Professional transcription service – text transcription of audio or video material
KERN offers a professional transcription service to create Experience has shown that an hour of audio material written records of German or foreign language audio or gives approximately 30 to 40 standard pages of typed text. visual material. Transcription is the transfer of spoken The time required for transcribing audio material can be texts and conversational situations from audio and video measured by a factor of five to nine, depending on the recordings into written form which are available as audio quality of the recording, the speed of the speech, and the cassettes, audio CDs, DVDs and MP3 files or other file degree of accuracy required for the transcription to be formats such as Wave. The variety of texts which need adapted for its purpose. The relatively high level of time and to be recorded in writing ranges from video conferences, effort required for a transcription is due to dialects of the telephone interviews as a data collection strategy and in speakers and background noises, which make it necessary social research and interviews for films and television to repeatedly play back the sentences. A transcription of the productions to series of lectures. audio material that contains neither gaps nor errors, and in which even small details of the utterances are recorded, including when speakers' utterances overlap requires the highest level of concentration.
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