Dissertation Transcription
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Dissertation Transcription is the transcription of dissertation material given by students, into their text form.

A dissertation is a written treatise or exposition on a topic, much lengthier than an essay. It is needed by universities to certify the competence of the student in that particular subject.
Dissertation and thesis are both used interchangeably. But they are not the same. For dissertations, one just has to collect matter from different reference materials and include ones opinions and arguments on it. But a thesis is much more than that. A thesis needs to be original research that one undertakes, though one is free to refer materials for that too.

This differentiation is used by universities around the world. In the US, a dissertation is the submission for the entire course while the thesis is for applying to masters program.

In the UK, a thesis is for applying to M.Phil or Ph.D while the dissertation is for some undergraduate project reports. Both types of academia based submissions require the students to extract data from all the reference material they have gathered and organize them into a neatly typed report. The typing work may take up a lot of time, if the student chooses to do it by himself. But to save time and utilize the time saved for more of research, it is advisable for students to go for Dissertation Transcription.

Dissertation Transcription work is unlike any of the other transcription works. In other kinds, the conversion is from audio to text format. Here, the conversion is from available text material in a variety of forms into a single file that has all the relevant data organized neatly. The students who have to write a dissertation are required to take their data in different forms. Lecture notes, discussion notes, internet downloads, seminar writeups, material taken from the library etc. are some of the forms in which the reference for dissertation transcription will show up.

The transcription work of such nature is no easy task. The companies that do transcription work in traditional areas like medical, media, technical etc. find it challenging to do this kind of transcription work as they are used to transcribing only audio or video content. But we have dedicated ourselves to provide service in this area and hence have come up with innovative ideas to deal with the special requirements of the students. The transcription will be according to the format that you specify. Also if you need to add in extra material in the last few days before submission, you can submit the material to us and the new content will be put in appropriately.

We understand that students have tighter purse strings and the cost of such kind of transcription may be hard to bear for them if they are charged as per industrial standards. We assure them that our transcription services will be one of the cheapest ones in the market today. Our transcription services follow the outsourcing model where the main office operates from the US but we have offshore locations in India. Hence, the costs of getting your dissertations transcribed will be extremely cheap. All this comes without any drop in quality standards whatsoever. And all the transcripts will be available in quick time too.

Being in the transcription industry for many years, we have come to know the nature of this industry, inside out. Our experience shows that we have the required expertise and the infrastructure to fulfill your transcription needs. Some of the world’s top universities have been and are still our clients and they would testify to you about the quality,speed and cost efficiency that we offer.

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Time Stamping/Coding
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According to the customer specification, we satisfy different time stamping standards.

• Frequency of time coding,

• Audio time code style,

• Subjective time stamping etc.

How much it Costs? 10 USD to 12 Per Hour!    
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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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We classify the Audio source by following categories.

Category - A

One on One Interview/Speech Lectures/Oral History/Web Conferences

Professionally Recorded

Broadcast ready recordings

No Background noise

Neutral Accent

Standard Turnaround

No Time Stamping

Standard Formatting specifications

Verbatim Transcription

Category - B

Group Discussions, Focus Group Sessions, Telephone Recordings, Work Place Interviews, 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)

Here is how Cost Estimate done!   
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We charge 10 USD to 12 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.

Here is how Effort Estimation done!

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.

How you can get free Trail done?    
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Final pricing is arrived by a No Obligation Trial. You can upload trial audio at

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How to outsource 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.

How do we accept 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 we accept...    
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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.

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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.