Research Transcription Services
- Automatic first-draft captions and transcripts with 90% accuracy
- Perfect and affordable transcriptions via human transcribers
- Full adherence to GDPR, we protect your researchers and respondents data
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Privacy, GDPR Compliance & Security
As Europe’s leading provider of high-quality transcriptions, we value your privacy. We regularly sign data-processing agreements (DPA’s) and non-disclosure agreements (NDA’s) with our clients to guarantee the highest privacy standards. Data will not be stored outside of West-Europe and you can delete your data from our servers at any time.
All our professional transcribers are specifically trained to adhere to our confidentiality standards and have signed NDAs which contractually hold them to confidentiality – they never have direct access to your data.
The only person who’ll have access to your sensitive data is you.
You’re in safe hands
GDPR + ISO27001 & ISO9001 certified.
Automatic Transcription Editor
- Amberscript develops proprietary speech-to-text models in multiple languages. Specifically trained for the “Academic” domain. With high accuracy for specific terminology.
- Speaker diarization differentiates multiple speakers.
- Collaborate with multiple users on one research project with our multi-user license.
- Get more out of your time and your student assistants with our intuitive transcription editor
Human Transcription Platform
- Combining high-accuracy speech recognition and top-quality professional transcribers, Amberscript provides accurate captions and transcripts – at competitive rates.
- All transcriptions are checked by at least 2 transcribers – for guaranteed accuracy.
- With a strong presence in Europe, Amberscript has created the largest transcriber network in Northern and Central Europe.
Why choose Amberscript for research transcription?
Amberscript is the leading provider of high-quality speech annotation services for European languages.
Largest and best-qualified network of transcribers in various countries.
Speech recognition algorithms specifically tailored to political discussions and debates.
Multi-user License for faculties and research groups
Do you frequently run research projects at your faculty or research group? Do you want to make use of Amberscript’s transcription editor with a group of reserachers, student assistants or co-workers?
With Amberscript’s multi-user license, you purchase transcription credit centrally and allocate it amongst your team.
Various universities use our multi-user license to save thousands of hours of manual labor by automating large parts of the transcription process.
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Available in
39 Languages
English (all accents)
English (Australia)
English (UK)
English (US)
English (Canada)
Danish
Dutch
Finnish
French
Italian
German
Norwegian
Portuguese
Spanish
Swedish
Arabic (Saudi Arabia)
Indonesian
Bengali (Bangladesh)
Bengali (India)
Bulgarian
Catalan
Chinese Mandarin
Farsi (Iran)
Galician
Hebrew
Greek
Hindi
Hungarian
Japanese
Korean
Lithuanian
Nepali (Nepal)
Polish
Romanian
Russian
Turkish
Ukrainian
Urdu (India)
Urdu (Pakistan)
Case study: University of Twente
Transcription (converting audio to text) is a time-consuming, but essential step in qualitative research. The students and researchers of the University of Twente used to do this tedious process manually or hire 3rd parties.
“For some time now there were questions to the BMS Lab about whether technology could accelerate this process. So far we didn’t find one, but with Amberscript we were convinced of the quality and user-friendliness.” – Jan Willem van ‘t Klooster, Managing Director of the BMS Lab
The faculty BMS of University of Twente decided to switch to Amberscript, which saved them a lot of time and effort, that they would put in manual transcription. Amberscript helps researchers to stay focused, while monotonous work is done for them.
“The automatic transcripts from Amberscript need some editing, but it saves a huge amount of time.” – students say.
Frequently Asked Questions
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How can AI be used for transcription?
A branch of AI is speech recognition technology, which is used by some companies to create virtual personal assistents. Companies like Amberscript train machines to be able to automatically recognize speech, which is the core of the automatic transcription tool.
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How do I get more accurate transcripts?
The quality of the audio greatly affects the accuracy of the transcripts, for both manual and automatic transcriptions. In our blog you can read about how you can easily improve your audio quality.
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How to use the online editor?
The online editor has an easy-to-use control panel, that will allow you to adjust timestamps, highlight passages and edit the speaker identification. To edit parts of the text in the transcript, simply click on the part you want to edit and the cursor will appear. You can also press alt while clicking in a text, which makes the audio jump to that part.
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What file formats are accepted?
Our software supports all popular audio and video formats, including MP3, MP4, WAV, AAC, WMA and M4A.
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What is the turnaround time?
Our state-of-the-art speech engine delivers results in less than an hour (depending on the size of the file, it can also just take a few minutes). Just upload your audio into our system and we will notify you as soon as the file is ready! if you would like to learn about turnaround times for our manual transcription services, click here.
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What is transcription?
Transcription is the process of converting speech or audio into a text format. Captions and subtitles are formatted to be shown in video, while a transcript is plain text.
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Which languages are supported?
The Amberscript AI currently supports 39 languages.
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Do you also offer translations?
Yes, we do. We regularly do projects in many different languages. If you have a request please let us know through our contact form. Translated subtitles can be requested during the upload process.
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Do you provide full verbatim or clean read transcripts?
In the manual transcription service, we provide both transcription types.
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Which languages are supported?
We offer the human-made transcription services in 15 languages. If the language you are interested in is not on this list, please contact us through our contact form. Machine-made transcriptions are available in 39 languages.
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Are there limitations on the number of files I can upload?
No, you can upload as many files as you would like.