Quick tips to help you save money when you get your audio transcribed
In these times of economic instability, it’s obvious that everyone searches for ways to cut their expenses. So, when you need your audio files transcribed, how do you achieve this? The answer is very simple and you might have guessed it already. The good news is that in the last 15 years, the internet has spred all around the globe. Today, people get the same things done in mere seconds, for which they had to spend hours standing in queues.
You could say what has this got to do with anything? So, here is your answer: the advent of internet and all the online services have given birth to outsourcing. If you need to cut down your expenses and get your audio files transcribed at much, much cheaper rates with the same level of accuracy and quality, if not better, the best solution is to outsource your transcription needs. You would want to take the following criteria under consideration:
- Choose an online transcription service, don’t try to do it yourself. Anyone who has ever tried transcribing even 5 minutes of audio will tell you, that without the proper expertise and equipment, it’s a painstaking and tedious process. So, getting an online audio transcription company will save you a huge amount of time and result in a much better quality of your output file.
- Precisely for this reason, the internet proves to be of tremendous help. Spend some time searching for a proper transcription service. It’s recommended to not choose a big transcription company with a big and fancy website, because usually they have high costs and no promise of a turnaround time. So, while you could pay around $0.70 per minute, you wouldn’t know when you would get your transcript back, could take weeks or even a month.
- Do not choose a company situated in any of the western countries, because their expenses, as well as their wages, have to be higher since they have higher costs due to the maintenance of a large team, and auxiliary personnel (the web-page design and maintenance, for example).
- The so-called “third world countries’” workers are satisfied with much lower rates, due to a lower level of subsistence, but the level of expertise in the field of turning voice to text is the same, since the level of education is almost as good, if not on-par. For example, a lot of multinational companies who outsourced their work in the last 20 years, found the same level of quality and a higher level of dedication, at 10 times lesser price!
- Do not be fooled by claims from other companies that they’re completely onshore, as they claim to be completely “in-house” either in America, UK or Australia. 99.9% of the online transcription companies get their job done offshore, most of the English related work in India, and also Philippines and Eastern European countries. If you do even a little research, you will find this out. The reason being quite simple, because it will be foolish, from a business point of view, to offer competitive rates while living in a western country, and still manage your business efficiently. It’s impossible!
So, all that we want to tell you is to be prudent when making your choice. Do some research first before making your choice. Don’t just spend time on the first few pages of the search engines, explore some more. You might find something much better and cost effective. This is not an advertising message for ScriptoSphere, because we are already on the first page for many search engines. This post is meant only to help new clients. Hopefully it did help!
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