Transcription Services

Various translation companies together with translation services also provide transcription services in various languages. Transcription services have become very popular these days . Transcription services cover a wide range of areas include legal, medical, media, educational, corporate or business transcriptions.


What is Transcription?
Transcription is the process of conversion of a spoken words into written, typewritten or printed form. Transcription (linguistics) also includes the conversion of handwriting or a photograph of text into pure text.

Types of Transcriptions
There are different types of transcriptions such as follows:

• Verbatim Transcriptions: Generally preferred for depositions, these transcriptions are word for word transcriptions including fillers and false starts. It gives a full transcript of everything that is said in the recording which includes certain words like 'I mean', 'you knows', and 'sort of' etc.
  
  
• Semi-verbatim Transcriptions: These transcriptions are word for word transcriptions without fillers or false starts. Basically used for interviews and focus group transcriptions.
  
  
• Summary Transcriptions: Grammatically edited versions of transcriptions are summary transcriptions.

Types of Transcription Services
Transcription services are of many types which we are discussing below:

Medical Transcription Service
One of the fastest growing fields in health care is medical transcription. Medical transcription is the process by which a transcriptionist accurately transcribes or writes medical records dictated by doctors and others. These documents include information on history and physical reports, office notes, clinic notes, consultation notes, operative reports, discharge summaries, psychiatric evaluations, x-ray reports, laboratory reports, pathology reports, diagnostic studies etc. Health professionals dictate this specific information either through the use of a phone dictation system or into a digital or analog recorder. Transcriptionists then transcribe this information into a typed document, which is then forwarded for review. These documents form a part of a patient's, the doctor's and the hospital's permanent medical record.

Legal Transcription Service
Legal Transcription services are used by lawyers and attorneys. The service includes writing dictated or recorded information from courtroom hearings and other law offices relating both civil and criminal procedures. These may include pleadings, interrogatories, testimonies, and administrative hearings. In general the information is recorded into a tape or into a digital voice processing systems. Legal Transcription is the process of transferring information from recorded dictation to hard copy documentation.

Technical Transcription Service
Technical transcription is a type of transcription service used by companies dealing with technological innovations (computer, communications), medical marketing research, market research, advertising firms, technology verticals and related professionals .

Educational Transcription Service
Used for educational purposes, educational transcription refers to the transcription of seminars, lectures, discussions etc. held in institutes and universities.

Benefits of Transcription
Transcription services are highly popular nowadays because of some benefits provided by such services such as follows:

• Transcription services are preferred by many because they are easy to understand. Many people when listening to an audio may not be able to gather more information but the same information can easily be understood when you have the transcription in front of you. You read each and every word and understand each word.
  
  
• Transcription services is a part of translation services. Transcription helps in spreading knowledge and information. You can easily transcribe a dictated matter and then translate it into different languages. In this way you share your content with others, which may not have been possible otherwise. Transcription translations help many companies to know their latest developments in their field and be aware of technological advancements.
  
  
• Transcripted documents are easy to store in MS-Word format. They can easily shared and transported across the Internet.