Etranscript
Insurance in Johannesburg

Etranscript provides transcription services to both business and private individuals. We provide a professional and reliable transcription service. Etranscript is a team of first language English-speaking transcriptionists. Our clients include attorneys, media production companies, academia, psychologists, insurance loss adjusters, students, journalists, authors, business professionals, medical doctors, detectives and solo professionals. We transcribe both digital audio and video recordings. We offer a user-friendly and secure transfer facility to upload your audio files via our website. Security and confidentiality of material is a priority.

My current clients include academics, solo professionals and general business and private persons across many sectors. Formatting documents for consistency with respect to heading and paragraph styles, legal and standard numbering, bibliography and reference lists, as well as setting up reference pages for the table of contents and table of figures. My dictation transcription service offering includes the transcription of medical, medico-legal and general dictation of reports, correspondence or file notes. Increase voice projection in noisy environments to compensate for potential interference. My aim is to complete the transcription of dictation within 12 to 48 hours and is dependent on the quantity of dictation received. Once the checking process is complete, the typed document will be emailed to you. My interview transcription service includes the transcription of one-on-one and qualitative research interviews for researchers, academia, film and radio producers, authors and journalists. Record your interviews using the best possible digital recording device to ensure a recording quality that allows for accurate and fluid transcription. Where possible, switch off devices and equipment that are a potential source of background noise that could impact on the quality of the recording. Remind your interviewee to increase voice projection in noisy environments. In an extremely noisy environment such as a restaurant, it would be best to make use of a lapel microphone. Certain factors can slow the pace of transcription and these are usually attributable to a recording device that is perhaps not the best choice for the job or that the interview was recorded in a noisy environment. Often the decision as to the choice of venue where the interview will take place is left up to the interviewee and if this venue is a noisy restaurant or busy home, the researcher has to do the best they can in the situation presented to them. In instances where the quality of audio does not allow for quick and fluid transcription, the turnaround time will increase accordingly. The type of transcript required will depend on the function of the transcript. The transcriber uses his/her discretion to improve the readability and coherence of a transcript. Intelligent verbatim is used in the compilation of transcripts of some qualitative research interviews and disciplinary processes. All parts of natural speech are included in the transcript, for example, um, ah and uh. Pauses, which are measured in seconds, are also denoted in the transcript by means of dots. Discernible changes in voice intonation are denoted along with incidences of chuckling, crying or shouting. Verbatim transcripts are most often used in the transcription of therapy sessions, some qualitative research interviews and especially where discourse analysis is required. Compiling a verbatim transcript is very time-consuming and is therefore charged at an increased rate. A time stamp taken from a point in the audio file is inserted into the transcript according to the requirements of the editor.