When You Hire a Transcriber...

All transcriptionists have different elements and coding that they can use to help make your manuscript or document read easier. In order to get what you need from your transcriber, offering the following information helps us identify what needs to be done for your particular project.

1. Time stamp: Do you need or wish us to time stamp your document? Where would you like it done, beginning of each page, each speaker?

2. Spacing: Would you like your document double spaced for easier editing?

3. Names: Providing us with the names and spelling of those names of not only the speaker but those listed or named in the document provides us with a key to go by making our job to transcribe seamless. Do you want the speakers to be identified?

4. Number of Speakers: The number of different individuals that you will be hearing in on the audio. Any accents or language elements of each one that might help us identify the speaker helps as well.

5. Verbatim or Grammatically: Do you want the transcription to be verbatim (word for word, noise for noise) or would you like those false starts and "um's" and "ah's" to be edited out for easy reading?

Net time you talk to your transcriber, make sure you give them any special instructions up front. These are just guidelines, but make sure that if you have something in particular you need done or transcribed in a particular way, let us know right away. This helps us handle it once and we make sure you get a perfect document.

Transcriptionists in the industry all have different ways of handling their own elements, and these are just guidelines to know what you can ask for. We aren't limited and so don't be afraid to ask if we can do something special for your transcribing project.