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8 reasons to use corporate transcription services

When you need a reliable record of an event or meeting, nothing fits the bill like recordings and accurate transcriptions. So, what is corporate transcription?

With an excellent and growing reputation for our corporate transcription services, here’s our guide to when, why and how to use transcription.

What is corporate transcription?

Corporate transcription services, or business transcription services, refers to the process of creating a written form of audio and video content. For example, corporate transcription could mean creating a written version of audio or video recordings including a speech, webinar, business meetings or conference. The transcription could provide a Word document, PDF or PowerPoint presentation version, for instance, of:

  • Conference transcription
  • Conventions
  • Disciplinaries, Hearings and Tribunals
  • Medical or legal proceedings
  • Interviews
  • Corporate Meetings (Minutes)
  • Presentations
  • Seminars or webinars
  • Teleconferences
  • Academic transcriptions, tutorials, lectures and training events
  • Market research such as focus group sessions

What are the benefits of corporate transcription?

Transcription allows you to easily share the information contained in audio or video files with people who weren’t present at the event or provide a written record for those who were. For lengthy audio recordings, creating a written transcription can make it easier to find the relevant information, or to pick out key points.

1. Transcription saves time

Once audio content is transcribed, people can easily and quickly review and reference it. They can scan and read a transcript to find what they need, rather than having to listen to the whole audio file.

2. Transcribed content is more searchable

Search engines like Google are more able to scan content transcribed from audio files so it helps your audiences to find your content more easily and can contribute to your SEO.

3. Transcription combines well with video

Watching a video along with reading a transcription uses two senses – hearing and sight – helping people to absorb and digest information more easily. And transcribed content is useful for when audio is inconvenient.

4. Corporate transcribing services make it easier to repurpose content

Once your meeting, interview or other event has been transcribed it becomes very easy to reuse the content, such as:

  • Presenting findings from a focus group or research interviews
  • Creating marketing content (like blogs) from a webinar
  • Creating training materials from a how-to video
  • Creating a news article or press release from an interview

5. Transcribed content can be more accessible for people with disabilities

Providing transcripts supports people with hearing or visual disabilities, allowing you to provide content in a range of more accessible formats.

6. Prepare Content for Translation

Once transcribed, your content can be more easily translated into your target languages. An accurate transcription of audio content is the first step towards creating a quality translation.

7. Accurate transcription helps to avoid misunderstandings

Recording and creating a transcript to capture verbatim what is said at a meeting, conference or event is much more accurate than someone taking notes. And, where every word needs to be captured accurately, like a legal proceeding or an interview, a transcription provides a complete record.

8. Save time for your employees

Knowing that an event is being recorded and professionally transcribed frees up your employees from worrying about note-taking, allowing them to focus on following and contributing to the discussion as it happens.

Quality transcription is a skilled job and can be time-consuming, so bringing in professional corporate transcription services usually makes sense from a cost- and time-efficiency point of view, especially where there is specific subject matter which requires expert knowledge.

Who uses business transcription services?

Professional transcription services can be important for almost any industry.

We frequently provide corporate transcription services for legal proceedings, litigation and court hearings. Legal transcribers need to be familiar with legal language and prepared to work fast to meet the demand for fast turnaround.

Medical transcribers need to understand medical terminology, anatomy, medications and procedures, as well as complying with confidentiality. Medical transcription often goes hand in hand with the insurance industry, dealing with claims for injury, or health insurance claims.

How does business transcription work?

Your professional transcriber will listen carefully to the audio file and transcribe it into a text document. This requires excellent and fast typing skills and a good grasp of punctuation and grammar (to understand how important this is, just watch/listen to any video on YouTube which uses auto-captions and count the errors!)

Contact Language Link UK Today

Language Link UK offers competitively priced, rapid corporate transcription services with a reputation for a high level of accuracy. Our corporate transcribers are experts in a wide range of sectors including medical transcription, legal transcription and financial transcription, and our encrypted platform provides complete confidentiality and security.

Still have questions about what is corporate transcription, visit: Corporate Transcription Services – Language Link UK