The factors which affect the transcription time

The speed of speech is the most significant factor which affects the overall time taken for transcription to happen. If people speak slowly, there would be lesser words to key in an hour of audio-time. Another important factor is quality of your recorder. The other factors which are important include quality of the connection of the phone in case it is a con call. Whether people are too close to mic, the noises in the background, whispering, mumbling, or eating, etc. There is a lot of industry specific terminology which needs to be looked up for creating a perfect transcript for offering audio transcription services. 

Using high quality recorder and also setting it to very high-quality stereo, would create a very high quality of recording and that would lower the costs since you don’t need to re listen or rewind so much for hearing the script. You may get wonderful quality recorders for very low cost. 

The options of recording instruments for legal transcript services are not limited to just digitalise recorders. A lot of people are also doing recordings on their phones with the help of a programme known as “Garage Band”. 

The technology in recording is changing constantly. So, there are a lot of options in terms of recording now.

In case you are planning to buy a digitalised recorder, make sure that it has the Scene settings because this would signify that it has got a good microphone.

On most of the recorders, in case you go to the Rec mode menu, you may select different settings of quality. You would always wish to select the highest quality setting of stereo, until and unless you are doing telephonic recordings.

Generally, higher the quality less would be the time for recording. But most of the latest models in recorders have approximately 4 GB internal storage capacity, thus, they have wonderful amount of recoding-time. SO you don’t need to worry about the quality.

On some of the recording devices, if you select MP3 the default mode of recording is stereo and you can’t even change it. The most recommended recorder is the stereo for in person interviews and Mono for the telephonic interviews. Thus, in case your recorder has the options of WMA, it would be the best to employ the WMA setting as it is just within the WMA setting that you can select if you wish to record in stereo or mono.