Speech has significant characteristics in communication than any other verbal or non verbal modes of human communications. In today’s world the speech transcription plays a dominant role in decision making, planning, organizing, administrating and spreading awareness. The administrators do not use pen and paper in planning and management, due to their busy schedules and progressively voice has become the successful tool of handling enormous tasks. Even doctors don’t waste time on writing and they record their voice about the status of the patients and send the digital voice files to medical transcriptionists.
In verbatim transcription, a speech can be transcribed together with words and other non verbal forms such as pauses, fillers, background noise, and remote conversations. Sometimes the speaker may make a wrong start, correct mistakes on the spot, repeat the same sentence pattern or wait for the response of the audience, if he is speaking while questioning. Voice testing of the microphone and sounds of mobile phones also influence the verbatim transcription, while the clean read transcription only contains a word to word translation of the content.
Speech transcription is used for different purposes in different sectors such as financial, legal, marketing, media, academic etc. For instance, media companies use transcriptions to provide subtitles. In higher academic levels, the series of transcriptions of lectures can be considered as the core of the subject in all aspects, as it contains every single word of the lecture.
Capturing software is used by transcription companies to convert spoken words into text documents and also sound recognition and voice sensitive software are widely used in this process. Outsourcing is rapidly accepted by most of the business firms and social organizations, as it has highlighted the efficiency and the excellent quality of the products.
Digital recording equipments ensure high quality of sound and MP3, WMA files and larger size WAV files are mostly preferable for clear and quality sound recordings. These range between 8,000 kHz and 44,100 kHz and are appropriate for speech recordings.
Besides good language skills; including grammar, spellings, writing style and vocabulary; a transcriptionist needs to have excellent typing skills, understanding and organizing skills, specialization in the subject and higher level of common sense.
If you get a speech transcription of the key person of the company, which is transcribed by a professional transcriptionist, you may decipher that it is not merely a copy or written document of word to word translation since it reflects the essence of the main operations of the company, including both spoken and unspoken sense of the speech.
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