Legal Transcription: How and Why
Andrei Cucleschin, 04 September 2019
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Andrei Cucleschin, 04 September 2019
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Please note, this blog post is written for general information purposes and should not be treated as legal advice (!)
Legal transcription is the conversion of any legal and audio materials to text format. In legal domain transcripts can be applied in several ways, which are:
In general, you can choose between 2 options – hiring a company to produce transcripts for you or using automatic transcription service, like Amberscript. Both of these choices have their own benefits, which you can review in the table below (look at items marked with the X)
Benefit | Manual transcription | Automatic transcription |
Faster turnaround time | X | |
Higher accuracy | X | |
Privacy | X | |
Legal jargon | X | |
Legal compliance | X | X |
You should choose between automatic and manual transcription based on your priorities. If you want to be ensured that you’re the only human being going over your files – you should rely on automatic transcription tools. Sometimes it’s difficult for software to pick up legal jargon, but you can always make those minor adjustments yourself. For common language, our tool reaches up to 90% accuracy.
The greatest benefit of hiring a transcriber is that you receive a 99% accurate transcript without the need to make changes. However, as opposed to automatic transcription – it takes days instead of minutes.
Yes, there is one! Our Perfect service combines automatic and manual transcription. First, the files are transcribed with our software and then get checked by our human transcribers. This service saves a lot of time and money, in case you want to receive a ready-to-go transcript without putting any work.
Do you need a Legal Transcription? If you have any questions about the way we work, feel free to get in touch with us!
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