PhD Transcription – First Step in Doctorate Degree

Posted by charles gbrock on October 17th, 2019

The importance and demand for PhD transcription services are very high. Nothing is better than having your data in typed form. You can access it anytime and it’s easy to reach a particular point in a document but is hard with audio.

Transcribing your PhD can help others to understand what you have done and how you did that. It can also be helpful for other PhD scholars with their dissertations. Having the transcripts of your work is also good as you have things handy to be used.

But the PhD transcripts need to be done very carefully. As the aim of such projects, assumptions made, etc. needs to be featured correctly in the transcripts. Thus, the level of detail required for such transcription services must be high.

The entire meaning of a thing will change by the way a thing is said along with what is said. In dissertation transcription services, it is of uttermost importance for the transcribers to be very detailed while capturing the features such as: speed, emphasis, timing, tone of voices, speakers, and pauses. These elements play a crucial role while transcribing PhD.

The visual data elements also need not to be ignored while transcribing. The dissertation transcription procedure requires to capture all the important visual elements such as: the layout of the room, facial expressions, equipment used, gestures, etc.

Sometimes recordings can be tough to understand due to their poor quality. The poor quality can either be because of interfering noise or multiple speakers speaking at the same time or might be some other issue as well. The accent of the speaker and the style of the speech also affects the quality of the recording. It is highly important for the service provider to assign the task to a transcriber who is a subject matter expert. An individual will be able to transcribe perfectly only if he/ she has contextual information about the field or subject and PhD research. Having information about the sim of the project, settings, about the participants and interview topics beforehand, can help the transcriber performing his/ her job.

The presentation of the data is another thing that can affect the PhD transcript. The representation of written language happens in a standardized form which is different from its audible speech counterpart. Proper use of punctuations, placing the right alphabets in caps, etc., things look small but are very important when it comes to dissertation transcription. Selecting the UK spelling convention and grammar standards will readability, but on the other hand will also differ in linguistic variety, which is one the most important cultural identity.

The PhD transcription services need to produce transcripts with a great level of detailing while maintaining the aim of the project intact.