Online Transcription Services

Online Transcriptions, Subtitling, and Transcribing: What Are the Differences?

Online transcription is a transcription service that allows the automatic transcription of words contained in an audio file using special software.

This software can perform transcriptions much faster than a human would perform the same job.

Subtitling is a special form of transcription: it consists of transcribing the dialogue contained in a video. If there are actors on screen, it’s necessary to synchronize the subtitles with their presence, ensuring that the transcript of each line appears on screen as it’s spoken.

Furthermore, it’s necessary to ensure that a viewer can read the subtitle in time with the scene, before it disappears and is replaced by the next line.

These factors make subtitling quite complex and less mechanical than simple transcription. Eurotrad’s subtitling services for example, are entrusted to industry professionals and guarantee maximum fidelity in the rendering of dialogue and the synchronization of subtitles.

Finally, transcriptionconsists of transcribing the content of audio recorded live,usually during a lesson or conference. Compared to simple transcription, transcribing also involves editing to make the final text more formally correct, more accessible, or even more complete (for example, by adding notes, insights, and explanations of various topics).

As you might imagine, transcribing cannot be done by software alone; it always requires human intervention.

Eurotrad Certified Translations

If the audio documents contain evidence that will need to be presented in court, in addition to a transcription, a certified translation will be required, which is a translation for which the translator assumes full responsibility for its correspondence to the original.