Presentation Transcription Services

Presentation transcription is transcribing presentations and talks, including what is said around the slides. The work goes to transcribers who do this particular job every day, not to a general pool, and each file is checked against the source by a second reviewer before it is sent. This site is built around teams in several time zones, so files move while your office is closed.

Typically conference organisers, in-house comms teams and speakers repurposing their own talks. In each case someone downstream relies on the file being correct, so a mistyped name or a passage of crosstalk recorded as one speaker is not a small problem, and a second reviewer checks the work before it is sent. Clients here are usually working to a deadline in a different time zone from the people doing the work.

Yes, in 100+ languages, each handled by a native speaker and not by someone working from a dictionary. What presentation transcription involves does not change with the language, and the same independent check happens before delivery. Language availability is checked across every region before a date is promised, not just locally.

General transcription starts at $1 per audio minute and legal transcription at $2. What moves the figure is how long the recording runs, how clear the audio is and how many people are speaking, so the quote is built from your actual files and not from a rate card. The rate is the same whichever time zone picks the work up, so an overnight hand-off costs no more than a daytime one. Presentation transcription is quoted from the material you send, so a short job and a long one are worked out the same way. You get an exact total in writing before anything starts.

It depends on length and on how difficult the source is, and the time is in the quote before you commit. Rush delivery within 2 to 24 hours covers the urgent end. Presentation transcription is scheduled against the people who actually do this work, not against a general pool.

The 99+% accuracy standard applies to every file, and it holds because each transcript is produced by a person and then checked against the source by a second reviewer. Each hand-off between time zones is a fresh pair of eyes on the file, not a gap in the chain. What gets checked on presentation transcription is the detail a reader would otherwise have to verify themselves: names, figures, terms and anything the source left ambiguous. Anything genuinely unclear is flagged for you, never guessed at.

It is handled by restricting access, not by promising discretion. Presentation transcription often involves material people would not want circulated, so the file is closed to everyone except the pair working on it. Everyone on the job is under NDA, transfer is encrypted, and your own confidentiality agreement is signed before work starts if you have one.

Word, PDF, Excel, Google Docs or plain text. Finished files are emailed the moment they clear review, whatever the hour is where you are. The format for presentation transcription is agreed at order stage, so the first delivery is the one you can file, send on or publish. Your house template can be applied from the first order, which is what keeps a set of documents looking like one set.

Slide numbers can be noted in the text where the speaker moves on, tying words to visuals. That is settled before work begins and not discovered afterwards, so the first delivery is the one you can use. A file picked up in one region and finished in another carries its notes with it, so nothing is decided twice.

Worth asking for: a speaker-notes version can be produced alongside the plain transcript. It is easier to set at order stage than to retrofit, and it costs nothing on top of the quoted rate when it is part of the original brief. Delivery can be staged, with finished sections sent through as they clear instead of held to the end.