Rates are per audio minute of recording. We will quote a firm price after determining the quality of your recording, but our transcriptionists are skilled at listening, and we rarely determine audio to be difficult.
Please contact us for rates for transcription from handwritten pages.
Number of Speakers
Basic (1 to 3) good audio
Complex (4 or more) good audio
Basic (1 to 3) difficult audio
Complex (4 or more) difficult audio
3 to 4 days
$1.25
$1.60
$1.75
$2.00
2 days
$1.50
$1.85
$2.25
$2.45
Rates for transcribing from previously typed pages are $2.75 per double-spaced page.
Method of payment: Payment may be remitted by Visa, Master Card, American Express, Discover Card, check, or PayPal.
Discounts
Introductory rate for new clients: 10% off the first 60 minutes of audio.
Special academic rate for doctoral students: 5% off cost of each transcript, after first discounted 60 minutes of audio.
An extra fee is charged for difficult audio because the transcriptionist must listen to the audio multiple times to try to catch the dictation. Difficult audio is defined as audio that has background noise, mechanical hiss, low-speaking voices that are difficult to hear, speakers with moderate to heavy accents, and strict verbatim transcription (including uhs, ums, stutters and false starts), transcripts with time codes. Weekend and evening rush jobs may also be charged at difficult audio rates. We will always listen to a portion of your audio and request authorization before beginning to transcribe if we find the audio to be difficult. Please see our Recording Tips to help ensure that your audio recordings are high quality.
