Orthographic Transcription
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Orthographic transcription is the common type of annotation generated when we convert a collection of speech recordings into a speech corpus. A speech corpus is a collected body of recordings of speech and conversations of people from a region. Such a speech corpus is created primarily to have a record of ‘how people speak’ rather than ‘what people speak’. The speech corpus consists of two main parts namely the phonemic labelings and the orthographic transcription. The phonemic labelings give a pronunciation guide for each word that was spoken. The orthographic transcription is a verbatim conversion of spoken matter into text together with all the repetitions, pauses, false starts, slips, stutters etc. Such a speech corpus is tremendously useful across many areas of research.

Computer scientists make use of the corpus to develop and improve their speech synthesis and recognition software. Acoustic properties of speech are found to have an impact on individuals. This phenomenon is being investigated by psychologists. Conversational dynamics research also employs speech corpora to probe further into communication research.

From the above description, we can easily conclude why orthographic transcription is different from other forms of transcription services. Speech corpora consists of spontaneous speech, whose orthographic transcription must be created by specialized transcriptionists in a careful and error free manner. We have unmatched credentials in this highly specialized area of transcription, which our impressive array of clients will vouch for.

Exclusively for orthographic transcriptions, we have formulated a set of guidelines for our transcriptionists. These are:

(1)Standard spelling conventions will be followed strictly. By use of a spell checker, all words will be corrected to their standard orthographic form. If an unlisted word appears, it will be marked specially and used thus thereafter.

(2) To prevent any typographical errors in form of grammatical errors or speech attributed wrongly, we get the transcript checked again by a transcriptionist other than the one who originally transcribed the audio.

(3) The rules(in the form of special symbols for pauses,repetitions etc.) used to get the audio transcribed will be few in number and simple to understand for anyone who refers the transcripts.

We are aware of the tight financial purse strings of research departments of companies as well as universities involved in creation of speech corpora. Our orthographic transcription services are cheaper than any other general transcription service that you would opt for as we outsource our orthographic transcription services. This is done without any compromise on the quality of transcription. Our service will help you cut your transcriptioning costs by an incredible amount vis a vis any other transcription service. Any other service that provides such a unique blend of quality transcription work at throwaway prices is hard to find.

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Time Stamping/Coding
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Time Stamping is a critical requirement in transcription documentation needs. According to the customer specification, we satisfy different time stamping standards.

• Frequency of time coding,

• Audio time code style,

• Subjective time stamping etc.

How much it Costs? 10 USD to 12 Per Hour!    
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Price is very competitive at Transcription Star. We charge 10 USD to 12 per hour depending on the Audio Classification category . We operate our exclusive delivery facility from India apart from our California office. Our pricing and Turn Around Time advantages are appreciated by all of our customers. Our pricing method is one of the best in the industry.

Audio Classification
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We classify the Audio source by following categories.

Category - A
One on One Interview/Speech Lectures/Oral History
Professionally Recorded
Broadcast ready recordings
No Background noise
Neutral Accent
Standard Turnaround
No Time Stamping
Standard Formatting specifications
Verbatim Transcription

Category - B
Group Discussions, Judgments, Telephone Recordings, Court Pleadings, Open air Recordings, Court Depositions
Multiple Speakers
Technical Subject Matter
Recordings with background noise
Recordings with improper mike attachment
Recorded with Armature Recording devices
Standard Time Stamping
ESL Speakers (English as Second Language)
Client Specific Formatting
Subjective Transcription

Category - C
Multiple speakers with indiscernible voice overlapping
Constant Background noise or music
Tough Foreign Accent
Detective Recordings
Extraordinary Formatting specifications (MS Excel, web browser based applications)

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Cost Estimation   
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We charge 10 USD to 12 per hour depending on the category of Audio. Our rates are calculated according to the effort involved for each category.

Bulk Discounts

We offer significant cost savings up to 10 to 15% for bulk work. Customers with good volume and consistency can avail this offer.

Effort Estimation

In general Category - A should take 4 to 5 Hours of effort to transcribe, proofread and edit, besides final Quality Check.

Category - B should take 5 to 6 Hours of effort to transcribe, proofread and edit, besides final Quality Check.

Free Trial    
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Final pricing is arrived by a No Obligation Trial. You can upload trial audio at

http://transcriptionstar.leapfile.com/

Outsourcing Non Digital - Tapes, VHS, Micro Cassettes 
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We handle variety of Standard Tapes, Micro cassettes, MiniDVs, and VHS. We are experts in converting all types of non digital source audio/video into digital. Converted digital files are then sent for transcription. Extra charges are applicable for non digital to digital conversion.

Mode of Payment   
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Paying for service has never been so easy. At iSource, We accept all the familiar and easy payment

Credit Card
You can pay at our website upon receiving Invoice from us. We accept all major credit cards.

If you use our service regularly, you can authorize us to process payment from your credit card. We will require your Card #, Name that the card is registered to, and Expiry date.

Pay Check
You can post pay checks to our California office. Scanned copy of the pay check should be emailed to us for our records.

PayPal
We accept PayPal.

File Types  
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Preferable digital format is MP3.

We accept all the familiar audio and video types. It is always better to let us know what recording device and model is used to record. It will help us to use appropriate software to play and transcribe.

Upload Instructions    
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Our system can handle up to 1 GB at a time. But, it is advisable to limit between 100 to 150 MB per file. We recommend compressing using any zip applications and upload into our file server.

Guide for recording for Orthographic Transcription
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Getting quality transcription document practically, you have to find its roots from recording it with best possible methods. Here is a best recording guideline resource

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Notations and Format   
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Unless until specified, we follow the below standard notations and document rules:
• We transcribe verbatim. We type whatever heard including umms.. ahhs and pauses

• Doubtful words will be marked (?) in the beginning and end part of the doubtful sentence

• Times New Roman will be used as standard font

• One to one interviews transcribed as question and answer format without identifying names

• Indiscernible parts of audio are marked as (Indiscernible) in the transcript.

• Time coding/Stamping done only upon request.

• Nouns and Proper Nouns will be transcribed to the best of judgment, it is denoted by first letter in capital

• We follow standard US spelling and style.

For Further information, contact shiva@isourceindia.com