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A Glance at the World of Transcription Services

Author: Navjeet Kaur
by Navjeet Kaur
Posted: Aug 07, 2014

Transcription involves the conversion of recorded or a live speech to a text format or an electronic document. The main purpose of this is to put things together for future use, or make it explicable for the people who have hearing disabilities.

The fast paced 21st century has increased the demand for transcription services. Professionals involved in various fields do not have enough time these days to document their discourses and they mainly rely on the voice recorders, even when they are dealing with their everyday business. The availability of a large number of service providers and the affordability has also lead to the popularity of transcription service providing companies. There are many areas where these services can be used these days, some of which are mentioned here.

The most commonly used type of transcription service is the general transcription. In order to do this transcription, no certification is required. This particular service covers a broad spectrum of areas, which includes lectures, presentation podcasts etc.

Medical transcription is one of the common types. We all know, for a hospital maintaining patient’s records is very important. However, these days’ doctors and nurses do not have time to document the reports themselves, and here comes the need for medical transcription. These reports are typed in the spoken physician report type, and to do this, it is important that transcriptionist should have proper certification of anatomy and physiology. The numbers are equally important for these reports, as any wrong transcription may potentially put a patient's life at risk. A large number of health institutes today are going for outsourcing medical transcription services.

Next main area, where transcription services are used, is the legal transcription. Also known as the legal transcribing, it includes the conversion of dictation by legal professional into a text format. This includes transcription of court hearings, dictations, depositions etc. In contrast to the medical area, here transcriptionists do not require any certification, but definitely he or she needs to have the knowledge of the legal terms and procedures.

Business transcription is the other main area and this involves conversion of audio or video material from meetings, seminars, interviews etc., to the written form. In fact, this service is also used by the business practitioners to dictate letters and reports which they want to send out.

There are some of the other areas as well where these services are also used, for example interviews. These interviews can be of any type, as these can be a job interview, an interview for research purpose or interview of a celebrity. Through the transcription of these, the key things said by the speaker can be easily recognized and can be kept for reference later on. Also the TV shows, news flips and many other things related to media can be transcribed for future use. In fact, media transcription is gaining a lot of popularity these days.

Useful in so many ways, transcription services are now provided by a large number of companies. This is definitely a worthy process, which can save your time and efforts.

Whether it is a medical field, a business field or issues relates to court, the need for legal documents is realized everywhere. We offer quality verbatim Legal transcription to ensure you have required documents with you. To know about our other services, visit our website http://www.verbatimtranscription.net/

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