How has radio programming and publishing evolved in the 21st Century…
Audio transcription has been in the media industry for as long as you can remember, but it was almost invisible to those who didn’t pay attention. Of course, the process of turning voice to text wasn’t as lightning fast as it is today (thanks to online transcription services for that), and the whole process also wasn’t as streamlined as it is today.
Earlier, after the radio shows were recorded, the tape cassettes then were snail mailed to either a select few transcription services operating at those times, or they used an in-house transcriber who used to pull excerpts from the recorded interview, to print in either newspapers or magazines. Same would hold true for journalists and reporters who were able to record interviews with celebrities either in sports or the entertainment industry, or with politicians.
Today however, the whole process has changed dramatically, thanks to the ever evolving technology and faster internet speeds. These days, we have podcasts, which are nothing but radio shows that a user is able to download to their computer or a portable player, and listen at their own convenience.
To provide better alternatives to their listeners, many podcasters, radio show producers etc. publish transcripts of their shows on their websites, so that if someone is too busy to listen to the podcast, they can simply open the transcript and get to the part they’re most interested in. Many people also like to print these transcripts and read it in their comfort, on their own time, following their own pace instead of the talk-show hosts’.
For precisely the aforementioned reasons, there are many transcription companies around the web providing podcast transcription services as one of their premier services. Obviously, podcasts being crystal clear audio, they are a favorite of all transcribers and proofreaders, and because of the audio quality, podcast transcription also costs the least.
Of course, there are certain money-grabbing companies who would ask you to pay unimaginable money to transcribe these podcasts. Without taking any names, I saw one such company asking a monumental $3 per minute for converting podcasts to text! That in our opinion is complete rubbish.
ScriptoSphere charges its clients a mere $0.90 per minute of audio for a turnaround time of between 2 to 3 business days. That, as told to us by our clients, is a highly reasonable price for the quality we provide. With this post, we are not trying to sway your decision by offering a cheap rate, but only trying to help new clients not get ripped off by “big name” companies where they pay thrice the price for the same quality of transcripts and turnaround time.
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