Deposition Transcription
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Deposition Transcription is the transcription of court depositions as well as creation of related affidavits.

In legal terms, a deposition can be defined as the act of testifying under oath. It can also be a written statement taken under oath that can be used in place of spoken testimony. Deposition Transcription is a part of the court reporting services. Court Reporters usually undertake the work of verbatim transcription of court related depositions, hearings, interrogations, meetings etc. The written record for all of these events is required for correspondence purposes or as record for legal proof. The stress is on the accuracy of the transcription and its confidentiality due to the sensitive nature of the data transcribed. Deposition Transcription services are needed by law firms, public defender offices, legal departments in companies, state departments etc.

iSource India has been in the field of transcription since many years. We have witnessed the rise of this industry from the time it was a fledgling among other business services to its present position as one of the leaders among outsourced business services. We can claim to be veterans in this arena due to our considerable experience as well as the sheer expanse of the range of services that we have been providing. Hence, we possess the edge in understanding the needs of our customers and our mechanisms of getting those needs satisfied are tried and tested.

Deposition Transcription services come under the purview of legal transcription. Hence, the transcription work for depositions is guided by special rules that we have framed for this kind of transcription. The transcriptionists responsible for transcribing depositions are the most accurate ones. Moreover, the transcribed documents undergo multiple proofreading sessions to iron out all possible errors. All special formatting requests will be sought for and duly implemented in the transcription work. For securing confidentiality of client’s data, we have implemented several measures. We have been active participants in HL7 EHR Security and Privacy Issues. On the cost front, we have the advantage of being an outsourced transcription company. Though we operate from the US, we have an offshore location in India from where we get our work transcribed. India has a large pool of English speaking, educated middle class, which enables us to hire the best talent in transcriptioning for astonishingly low prices. Hence, law firms in the US are increasingly outsourcing their work to India to take advantage of this windfall of cost savings. Some law firms have saved about 40% of their transcription costs by getting it outsourced. All this comes without any compromise on quality as well. This is vouched for by our impressive clientele who have been using our transcription services since many years.

Some firms choose to do their own transcription work. For that they have to hire personnel especially for this purpose. There will be investments on preliminary training of transcriptionists. The investment on setting up infrastructure for such transcription work is also considerably high. All this adds up to unwanted overhead for the company. On the other hand, if you choose to get your transcripts from an outsourced deposition transcription company like ours, all of this expenditure will be completely avoided and your transcription work gets done in minimal cost. There wouldn’t be the need to bother about transcriptioning staff, their payroll, attendance record, insurance costs etc.

Other than Deposition Transcription, we also provide transcription services for other legal functions like interrogatories, pleadings, briefs, letters etc. There is no bar on the kind of law that we extend our services to, be it for real estate, criminal, family, personal injury, corporate or trial law.

For Further information, contact shiva@isourceindia.com

Pricing: 10 USD to 12 USD per Hour!
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Price is very competitive at Transcription Star. We charge 10 USD to 12 USD per hour depending on the Audio Classification category. We operate our exclusive delivery facility from India apart from our California office. Our pricing and Turn Around Time advantages are appreciated by all of our customers. Our pricing method is one of the best in the industry.

Time Stamping/Coding
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According to the customer specification, we satisfy different time stamping standards. They are:
• Frequency of time coding
• Audio time code style
• Subjective time stamping

For Further information, contact shiva@isourceindia.com

Price is very competitive at Transcription Star. We charge 10 USD to 12 per hour depending on the Audio Classification category . We operate our exclusive delivery facility from India apart from our California office. Our pricing and Turn Around Time advantages are appreciated by all of our customers. Our pricing method is one of the best in the industry.

How de we do the Audio Classification?    
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Category - A

One on One Interview/Speech Lectures/Oral History
Professionally Recorded
Broadcast ready recordings
No Background noise
Neutral Accent
Standard Turnaround
No Time Stamping
Standard Formatting specifications
Verbatim Transcription

Category - B

Group Discussions, Judgments, Telephone Recordings, Court Pleadings, Open air Recordings, Court Depositions
Multiple Speakers
Technical Subject Matter
Recordings with background noise
Recordings with improper mike attachment
Recorded with Armature Recording devices
Standard Time Stamping
ESL Speakers (English as Second Language)
Client Specific Formatting
Subjective Transcription

Category - C

Multiple speakers with indiscernible voice overlapping
Constant Background noise or music
Tough Foreign Accent
Detective Recordings
Extraordinary Formatting specifications (MS Excel, web browser based applications)

For Further information, contact shiva@isourceindia.com

Cost Estimation  
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We charge 10 USD to 12 USD per hour depending on the category of Audio. Our rates are calculated according to the effort involved for each category.

Bulk Discounts

We offer significant cost savings up to 10 to 15% for bulk work. Customers with good volume and consistency can avail this offer.

Effort Estimation

In general Category - A should take 4 to 5 Hours of effort to transcribe, proofread and edit, besides final Quality Check.

Category - B should take 5 to 6 Hours of effort to transcribe, proofread and edit, besides final Quality Check.

Free Trial   
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Final pricing is arrived by a No Obligation Trial. You can upload trial audio at

http://transcriptionstar.leapfile.com/

Outsourcing Non Digital - Tapes, VHS, Micro Cassettes  
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We handle variety of Standard Tapes, Micro cassettes, MiniDVs, and VHS. We are experts in converting all types of non digital source audio/video into digital. Converted digital files are then sent for transcription. Extra charges are applicable for non digital to digital conversion.

Mode of Payment   
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Paying for service has never been so easy. At TranscriptionStar, We accept all the familiar and easy payment

Credit Card

You can pay at our website upon receiving Invoice from us. We accept all major credit cards.

If you use our service regularly, you can authorize us to process payment from your credit card. We will require your Card #, Name that the card is registered to, and Expiry date.

Pay Check

You can post pay checks to our California office. Scanned copy of the pay check should be emailed to us for our records.

PayPal

We accept PayPal.

File types
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Preferable digital format is MP3.

We accept all the familiar audio and video types. It is always better to let us know what recording device and model is used to record. It will help us to use appropriate software to play and transcribe.

Upload Instructions    
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Our system can handle up to 1 GB at a time. But, it is advisable to limit between 100 to 150 MB per file. We recommend compressing using any zip applications and upload into our file server.

Guide for recording for Deposition Transcription
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Getting quality transcription document practically, you have to find its roots from recording it with best possible methods. Here is a best recording guideline resource

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Notations and Format
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Unless until specified, we follow the below standard notations and document rules:
• We transcribe verbatim. We type whatever heard including umms.. ahhs and pauses
• Doubtful words will be marked (?) in the beginning and end part of the doubtful sentence
• Times New Roman will be used as standard font
• One to one interviews transcribed as question and answer format without identifying names
• Indiscernible parts of audio are marked as (Indiscernible) in the transcript.
• Time coding/Stamping done only upon request.
• Nouns and Proper Nouns will be transcribed to the best of judgment, it is denoted by first letter in capital
• We follow standard US spelling and style.

For Further information, contact shiva@isourceindia.com