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The Difficult Audio upgrade is an optional upgrade when you order transcription services. How do you know when to add it, and why should you use it at all?
What the Difficult Audio upgrade does CastingWords uses the additional fee from the Difficult Audio upgrade to increase the pay to our workers who handle your material at every stage of processing.
Adding the upgrade does not reinstate the guarantee on our 1-Week or 1-Day products (challenging material does still take longer to process), but it assures the smoothest possible turnaround in any given case – often to within the desired timeframe.…
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Should your transcript be verbatim? It sounds like something you’d want, right? Your transcript should be true to the recording, after all!
At CastingWords, our standard transcripts are not fully verbatim, but you can add the Verbatim upgrade if desired. Here’s why:
Non-Verbatim for Smooth Reading In most cases, a recording is transcribed for the benefit of a reader, and spoken text does not always translate smoothly into writing. Our speech is often full of ums and uhs, we sprinkle in filler words such as “like” and “sort of,” we stop mid-sentence and start again.…
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Our last post discussed the difference between our Timestamps upgrade and our Subtitles & Captions upgrade, and what you get with each.
We explained that, on our end, Subtitles & Captions are all one product; you order the upgrade, and we give you the whole range of subtitle and caption formats so you can download whichever one you need.
But what, in fact, is the difference between subtitles and captions? Once you have all those downloadable files, which do you choose?…
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What’s the difference between subtitles and captions? What about timestamps? Do I need any of them? Help!
When you order a transcript from CastingWords, there are several optional upgrades you may choose to apply. Today we’re going to look at two of them: Timestamps, and Subtitles/Captions.
What are Timestamps?
Timestamping is the simpler of the two upgrades, since it doesn’t involve any additional file formats.
When you order timestamps, your audio is transcribed and edited by humans as usual.…
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