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Every transcript is edited and checked by our people. The levels differ in how experienced the editors are, and how much research goes in. A 30 minute interview is $30 Budget, $45 Professional, $75 Expert. Compare all three services →
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Speech recognition gives us a first draft in seconds. It cannot tell you whether a name is spelled right, whether a term belongs to this industry or that one, or whether a clean-sounding sentence means the wrong thing.
So, our people take it from there. Every transcript goes through several rounds of editing and quality control, including a pass where an editor listens to the entire recording while reading the words. That is the work you are buying.
We catch the difficult words
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We were constantly surprised that phrases or names that other companies missed, from "tabula rasa"
to "turducken" (it's a Cajun specialty), were identified and spelled correctly.
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