Academic Transcription Services

Posted by fairchildimogene on October 10th, 2018

Academic transcription refers to speech to text conversion of lectures, seminars, discussions, presentations held in schools, colleges or universities into a text format for educational purpose and hence termed as Academic transcription. Academic transcription are broadly categorized in two categories, they are real time academic transcription and non-real time academic transcription. A real time academic transcription is needed when the speaker and the audience do not speak a common tongue, academic transcriptionist then convert the speech into a text and display it on the screen instantly for the audience. A non-real time academic transcriptionist primarily does the same thing but not instantly.

There are many companies which provide academic transcription services to universities and colleges worldwide. They are professional who transcribed varieties of class rooms lecture and saves a great deal of time in taking notes in the class room. This enables the student to focus on the session rather than being distracted by taking notes. Real time academic transcription is a necessity for the students with hearing disability. Most of the universities offer distance education courses, for them transcription is a necessity. They hire professional who provide academic transcription services.

Most of their team members are university graduates who are familiar with the curriculums of various universities. Transcription services are helping the cause of distance learning. Academic transcription requires professional knowledge or at least some sort of background in that particular field. No matter how well versed or have a good command over the language one may stuck in the transcription of technical jargon. A good transcription service provider has professional to do this job. They are working professional in many fields of education like zoology, biology, physics, sociology, philosophy, medicine etc. Textual transcription of lectures, seminars act as a permanent record and can be saved in a hard drive or in a server.