Interview Transcription

Interview Transcription

The best interviews happen when you are listening rather than writing. You cannot follow up on the interesting half-sentence if you are three lines behind in your notebook.

Record it and send it to us. You get back a document you can search and quote from, with speakers labeled and the formatting consistent across every interview in the series. Add Timestamps and each passage points back at the moment in the audio, which is what you want when you need the exact wording of a quote or the tone it was delivered in.

Interview audio is rarely studio audio. A cafe, a phone, a conference corridor, two people who talk over each other when the conversation gets good. Every transcript is edited and checked by real people, including a pass where an editor listens to the recording while reading the words. We research names and terms we do not recognize rather than guessing at them, which is what stops an organization’s name from arriving misspelled in your published piece.

Choose the level of attention the interview deserves: three services at different prices and turnarounds. The same work suits other purposes too, from research studies to internal reporting.