Verbatim Legal Transcription
Transcription refers to the conversion of audio files into typed scripts by professional transcriptionists. Common forms of transcription include medical transcription, legal transcription and general business transcription. Verbatim transcription involves typing from audio files every thing that is heard as it is without changing or editing any sounds. It includes sighs, stutters, slang, and also fillers like “you know”, “err” and “mm”.
When is verbatim transcription required? In the field of law quite often legal transcripts are ordered / prepared in a verbatim manner, especially when it involves the interview session with a witness, lie detector test tapes, or police files of wire tapped conversations and call intercept tapes, CCTV tapes/, or excerpts from security videos, minidisks etc. Quite often these transcripts become critical evidence in a case and a verbatim transcript can record the actual words that were spoken by both the parties. Verbatim transcription will also reveal the quality of response and hesitations, surprise anger etc while replying to questions or during any conversation or interview.
Some of the different types of verbatim transcription examples include,
Police station interrogation
Radio/ TV interviews
Wire tap files transcription
Court proceeding transcription
Telephone interview
Journalism interview
Speeches transcription
Research transcription
Outsourcing of legal business and medical transcription is a very common practice these days and it is efficiently and professionally done using the latest digital technologies and the Internet. Audio files are often sent online to distant global locations like India for transcription to make it quite economic and also time saving.
About the Author: The author of this article is John Kessel of Managed Outsource Solutions , a US based company that offers services in Legal Outsourcing and Legal Transcription for clients across the US.
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