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Interview Transcripts

Interview recordings are any recordings with one interviewer and one or two interviewees (or two interviewers and one interviewee). If you have a recording with more than three participants in total please see our meetings and round table discussions or focus groups. Apart from dictation, interview transcriptions are the most straightforward recordings to transcribe, because of the limited number of participants, but it is still important to ensure that your recordings are of good quality and recorded in a reasonably quiet environment to get the best results from our interview transcription service. There is a considerable amount of information on how to make the best quality recordings, which you can find on our FAQ and articles pages. We will also be happy to talk you through the issues and pitfalls of recording for interview transcription, and how to avoid them, either by email or phone, and send you emailed copies of any of our relevant articles if this would help.

An affordable Transcription Service

We are very experienced at providing transcripts for this type of recording (including transcription for university research interviews) and understand that under some circumstances e.g. police investigations or certain types of research, a verbatim transcription is required. However, this takes longer and commensurately costs more than an intelligent verbatim. If price is a key factor you should consider carefully whether you really need verbatim transcription. An explanation of the differences can be found on the transcription type page, so please make sure you ask for the one you need!

We are happy to provide digital transcription services or transcribe from tape, and can work with a wide variety of digital files including wav, wma, mp3 and dss files, as well as minidisk recordings,

University research transcripts are one of our specialities and we offer a discount to students and universities. The director, Anne Hickley, is PhD qualified with experience of editing scientific and non-scientific texts and she either transcribes or checks all work that goes out to our long list of satisfied university clients. She has written a number of articles on transcription including interview transcription , which many clients have found very helpful. Please visit our articles page to see these. We understand the importance of accuracy, confidentiality, adherence to deadlines and, where necessary, formatting for NVivo or similar qualitative research software.

Our rates for interviews are as follows:

Interview Transcription		Price per Audio Minute
intelligent verbatim	Standard rate	£1.35
	Discounted rate for universities, students, institutions and charities	£1.20
Verbatim	Standard rate	£1.80
	Discounted rate for universities, students, institutions and charities	£1.55
Please note: This only applies to good quality digital recordings- assuming clear recording with minimal background noise and no strong accents. Our hourly rate for tapes is £20.00 per hour (or £18 per hour discounted rate). Please see the information on tapes and transcription times and type for more information on this.