From Voice to Page - The Transcription Process in the Twenty-First Century

March 8, 2010 - PRLog -- Have you ever brought an audio-visual interview onto the paper with an intention to work with them? Well if yes then you be must be aware of the niceties allied with this process.

If we reckon the traditional process, the VHS tapes (in which interviews were recorded) were sent to a typist who can hear the audio and type the matter concurrently. After that, some amendments and modifications were done by the transcribers on those typed papers and then passed on to the producer. Later, the producers started asking for the audiocassettes of each interview which were directly mailed to transcribers for the requisite changes.

Now days, advanced technology has reinvented everything. Today, the producer with sound tech records the audio on a distinct audio recorder and subsequently, the transcription file is mailed to the transcriber. The transcriber then turns the noise back into numbers so that they get synchronised with the spoken words.

There’s another method called direct writing method which is predominantly used on the sets. Actually, the interview sound directly comes from the mixer so it becomes uncomplicated for transcriber to pen down the audio.

Experts believe that it doesn’t matter how you accomplish this task, by using an audiocassette or something else, just because the output is similar. What really matters is a correct and an accurate script with corresponding time code. So people, it’s basically about the output that you desire not precisely about the methods, equipments and ideas that you execute.  

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