With the advent of new technologies, language industry has been benefiting people in several ways by providing captions, subtitling, translation, transcription and audio typing services. Though, people still confuse audio typing with transcription services. Obviously, both of this service compile a typed document of a recorded medium. But there is a vast difference between these two services, let’s get to know the benefits and difference between the two services separately before choosing them for your project.
Audio Typing is mostly created when one speaker dictates a file along with grammar, new paragraphs, capital letters, punctuation using Dictaphone. Sometimes they may even spell out difficult words/names and all these are recorded in a microcassette for typing accurately by a typist.
An audio typist is the one who specializes in typing text from an audio source in which they listen to. Generally, an audio typist works in various office settings like legal, medical or financial sector etc. They usually transcribe only one person dictating office correspondence. Namely letters, memos and reports. Working in the office sector they become familiar with their bosses voices, quirks also the content of the material that is produced on a daily basis.
The main key skills that an expert audio typist requires the ability to type fast, accurately and should possess the ability to touch type without referring to the keyboard. They must have an excellent command over spelling, grammar and a high level of concentration. A skilled typist can produce an accurate typed document with a speed of 65 to 75 WPM.
But when it comes to transcription services, Transcription is an art of following a set of principles to create a specific transcript. Here the source can be a recorded audio or video file containing more than one speaker in multi-group discussions. Those discussions can involve over 30 people speaking, and it would be a challenging task for transcribing.
A transcriptionist is the one who produce an accurate written record of audio recordings. Mostly transcriptionists will specialize in a particular field like legal, medical and academic. So, they are asked to transcribe the recording of police investigations, medical conference etc.
A highly skilled transcriptionists will have an excellent ear and patience to deal with people over talking continuously with all sorts of accents, dialects, background noise, terminology of the dialogue and often with poor quality. But they can be able to deliver an accurate transcript.
At Typing Global, we have highly skilled certified typists with multi-lingual support to deliver digital audio typing services starting at low as $0.10/min. To know more about our audio typing services click https://typingglobal.com/Audio-Typing-Services.php