Which are the most preferred audio formats by online transcription services?
While ScriptoSphere is fine with any type of audio format, there might be transcription services around the web who might need specific formats to work with. This post is intended to help readers make some adjustments before starting to record, so that the process of converting voice to text later becomes much easier.
Digital recording is the most preferred format worldwide with any transcription service these days. It’s because the resulting audio not only helps with transcription by being crystal clear, it provides that clarity in around the same file-size as that of an analog file. Plus, analog recorders have already gone out of date, but there are still some available, which are cheap.
You have to be very careful while choosing a recorder. The money you’ll save on the recorder, you’ll probably end up paying for the transcription, because bad audio file means more expensive transcription rates. So, that’s why make sure it’s a digital recorder, and then read the info or ask the seller what’s the output format.
Most of the audio transcription companies around the web prefer MP3, WAV, DSS, WMA or RA (Real Audio) formats for sound files, and AVI, MPG, WMV etc. for video formats. MP3 is probably the most preferred format because of its file size and quality, so it makes the process of uploading and downloading fairly easy. It’s also the most recognized format, so that means almost any player would play it and you don’t need any special codecs.
Hopefully this post helped you.
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