Frequently Asked Questions
- What is transcription?
- What is realtime transcription?
- What is realtime transcription with streaming?
- Why watch the realtime streaming?
- What is on-site transcription?
- What is remote transcription?
- Can I see the words on my computer at the same time they are spoken?
- Can I save the realtime streaming text electronically?
- Can I share/disseminate the transcript?
- Do you provide a hard copy of the transcript?
- Do you offer hyperlinked text, word index and concordance? (Preview | Download a working example)
- Do your transcripts use timecodes?
- How accurate is the transcript?
- How do I ensure that things are spelled right?
- Why is a transcript better than the audio recording?
- How can we tell who's speaking in the transcripts?
- Is realtime transcription expensive?
- Okay. So let's cut to the chase. How much does this cost?
- Can we schedule realtime transcription at the last minute?
- Is realtime transcription done with voice recognition? Is it a machine?
- Do you outsource your work?
- What about security and confidentiality?
- Do you destroy the data?
- Can realtime transcription services help us comply with Sarbanes-Oxley?
Improved comprehension:
- For meeting participants who speak English but are native speakers of other languages, comprehension is improved if they can see the English text.
- Captioning studies have shown that people comprehend and retain much more of what they read and hear than what they simply hear.
- If an individual meeting participant has audio difficulties and their audio is cutting out or nonexistent, they can read along with the realtime to see what they're missing.