Educational Transcription
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Educational Transcription refers to the transcription of lectures, seminars, discussions etc. held in institutes and universities. The transcription is used for educational purposes and hence the name ’Educational Transcription‘. The services under this category fall under two main classes, namely real time educational transcription and non-real time educational transcription.

Real time educational transcription is primarily used by the deaf and hard of hearing students to understand the on goings in the classroom. Imagine for a while that you are a deaf student studying in a mainstream school. The teacher is carrying on with her lecture while the students are all indulging in interactions about what the teacher is saying. Alas, you cannot hear what anyone of them says nor can you take part in the discussions. This is not uncommon for deaf and hard of hearing students as a statistic points out that 75% of deaf and hard of hearing people have to do with studying in normal schools where other normal kids study. With little help from teaching staff in the form of deserved extra attention and the study material being created keeping in mind the classroom lectures, the hearing impaired students are unable to learn effectively in their schooling years, which can cause irreversible damage to their future prospects.

We can provide such students with real time education transcription services. We provide meaning-for-meaning transcription rather than verbatim transcription in this special service. The difference between both of them is that in verbatim transcription there is word-to–word transcription of audio content, including all false starts, umms, aahs and other important background sounds like the flying of an aero plane. On the other hand, meaning-to–meaning transcription only transcribes the meaning of the recordings but does so by suitably shortening the content. A meaning-for-meaning transcription also adds non-verbal data that have special meanings, like facial expressions or stresses on certain words by the speaker.
We will provide real time transcription for online lectures. Institutes willing to provide this facility to their students should conduct lectures with professors speaking through microphones. Our transcriptionist will receive the audio feed and get the audio transcribed. Your students will receive the transcriptions on their computer screens.

A fully edited form of the transcript can also be procured on demand. Such a transcript will be made available within 24 hours of the lecture.

Non real-time transcription service includes webcast and videotape transcription of classroom lectures and seminars. On receiving the webcast link or the videotape, our transcriptionists get going with the transcription of the audio content. If you want your audio/video files captioned, then log on to our server and upload the file for captioning. We accept a range of file formats like mp3, wav, mov, wma, wmv, mp4 etc. The formatting will be done as per the client’s wishes. The client will be given a login id from where he can upload content to be transcribed as well as access and manage older transcripts.

Our transcription services are outsourced to our base in India. This enables us to run our operations at a lesser cost compared to a transcription firm that runs locally from the US. This cost benefit is completely passed on to our customers. We are aware of the limits on spending by institutes. Hence we would strongly recommend you to choose an outsourced transcription company like ours which will not be an unnecessary drain on your resources. Also, we have considerable experience in provision of transcription services to various sectors, and so you can be rest assured about our expertise and infrastructure standards for transcriptioning.

Other than lectures, our company also provides transcription service for seminars, conventions, orations, speeches, discussions etc. as a part of its package for educational transcription. The following is the list of clients who have been receiving our services and still continue to seek them due to the high standards that we have set in transcriptioning.

For Further information, contact shiva@isourceindia.com

How much it Costs? 10 USD to 12 Per Hour!    
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Price is very competitive at iSource. 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.

Time Stamping/Coding
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According to the customer specification, we satisfy different time stamping standards.

• Frequency of time coding,

• Audio time code style,

• Subjective time stamping etc.

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Audio Classification?    
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We classify the Audio source by following categories.

Category - A

One on One Interview/Speech Lectures/Oral History/Web Conferences

Professionally Recorded

Broadcast ready recordings

No Background noise

Neutral Accent

Standard Turnaround

No Time Stamping

Standard Formatting specifications

Verbatim Transcription

Category - B

Group Discussions, Focus Group Sessions, Telephone Recordings, Work Place Interviews, 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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Here is how Cost Estimate done!   
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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
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We offer significant cost savings up to 10 to 15% for bulk work. Customers with good volume and consistency can avail this offer.

Here is how Effort Estimation done!
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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.

How you can get free Trail done?    
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Final pricing is arrived by a No Obligation Trial. You can upload trial audio at

http://transcriptionstar.leapfile.com/

How to outsource 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.

How do we accept payment?    
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Paying for service has never been so easy. At TranscriptionStar, 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 we accept...   
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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 Educational 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.